[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or condition of being tipsy; a partial degree of intoxication; also fig.
1598. Florio, Ebbriachezza, dronkennes, tipsines.
1681. H. More, Exp. Dan., Pref. 7. Partly out of tipsiness, and partly out of consternation of mind.
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, iii. Firmly set upon his legs on that neutral ground which lies between the confines of perfect sobriety and slight tipsiness.
1855. Geo. Eliot, Ess. (1884), 290. No tipsiness can be more dead to all appeals than that which comes from fitful draughts of sleep on a railway journey by night.
