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Tipsy vs Tissy - What's the difference?

tipsy | tissy |

As an adjective tipsy

is slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages.

As a noun tissy is

(colloquial) a type of behavior, usually when a male acts feminine in a manner of frustration.

tipsy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages
  • (metonymy) unsteady, askew

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * tipsy cake

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    tissy

    English

    Usage notes

    Origination: a play on the word, hissy'' or ''hissy fit .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (colloquial) A type of behavior, usually when a male acts feminine in a manner of frustration.
  • :Mark threw a huge tissy when he came in today and saw the mess that was made of his magazines.
  • :After the laughter that was directed at him after his first tissy'''-fit, Mark started to '''tissy for a whole new reason.

    • Derived terms

    *throw a tissy-fit *tissy-fit