different between kipsy vs tipsy

English

Etymology 1

From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) +? -y (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

kipsy (plural kipsies)

1. (Australia) A house or shelter.

Verb

kipsy (third-person singular simple present kipsies, present participle kipsying, simple past and past participle kipsied)

1. To board, to reside.
   • 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155,

     “ […] It?s some kind of boarding-house that she kipsies in—”

Alternative forms

• kipsie

References

Etymology 2

Noun

kipsy (plural kipsies)

1. (obsolete, slang) A basket.

Alternative forms

• kibsey

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary (as kypsey)

Anagrams

• pisky, spiky

English

Etymology

From tips +? -y. Compare artsy, folksy, and sudsy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?p?s?, IPA^(key): /?t?p.si/
• Rhymes: -?psi

Adjective

tipsy (comparative tipsier, superlative tipsiest)

1. (informal, slang) slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages
2. (metonymically) unsteady, askew

Synonyms

• (slightly drunk): buzzed, merry, squiffy; see also Thesaurus:drunk
• (unsteady): off-kilter, precarious, tottering, wobbly; see also Thesaurus:askew or Thesaurus:rickety

Derived terms

• tipsy cake

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967