'tipsy' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means slightly drunk or feeling the effects of alcohol. It is often used in a casual or humorous context. Example: After a few glasses of wine, I started feeling a bit tipsy and couldn't stop giggling at everything my friends said.
But David Cameron's too tipsy on the fracking kool-aid to acknowledge biogas's potential.
Flash, who admitted being tipsy, said she ushered Connolly into the photograph when suddenly Winehouse struck out at her, leaving her crying, in shock and unable to open her right eye.
Burlesque dancer Sherene Flash, who admitted she had been "tipsy", had claimed the singer hit her in the right eye after being asked for a photograph at the Prince's Trust Ball in Berkeley Square, London, last September.
Most tipsy: Party-goers in Edinburgh will be throwing a "joycott" (a reverse boycott) at a local bar (Mercat on West Maitland Street) that agreed to put 20% of its extra revenues on 10/10/10 to making the bar more energy efficient.
Weird, wonderful lemurs - singing ones, mini ones, even ones sashaying like tipsy ballerinas - iridescent frogs, technicoloured chameleons, and laid-back boas trump anything a cartoonist could pen.
Sitting on a rough bench in his moonshine bar in a banana grove, a tipsy Bernard Okumo says his wife used her windfall to bail him out of jail, where he was facing a murder charge.
Colin Hodge, BWF's boss, admits he came up with the concept while "a bit tipsy".Such apps make it easier to find potential partners, but don't seem to have turned America into a nation of bed-hoppers.
Software developed by Probayes, a firm based near Grenoble, in France, identifies and then steers clear of drivers who are angry, drowsy, tipsy or aggressive.
He works the medium into hairy curls, tipsy graphs, smudges, swirls and clouds.
There, to whoops from a few tipsy locals, she sheds most of her clothes and gyrates to a Hindi pop tune.
Looking at Picasso's sculpture, "The Absinthe Glass" of 1914, it is easy to see why: the teetering work is a toast to being tipsy, and looks tipsy, too.
