Tipsy vs Titubant - What's the difference?
tipsy | titubant |
slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages
(metonymy) unsteady, askew
stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy
* 1896 , , Macaire , act i, scene 2 (stage directions)
* 1928 , Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica? , volume 3, page 65
* 1948 , Karl Pearson, Treasury of Human Inheritance: Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies? , page 253
As adjectives the difference between tipsy and titubant
is that tipsy is slightly drunk, fuddled, staggering, foolish as a result of drinking alcoholic beverages while titubant is stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy.tipsy
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*titubant
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(en adjective)- To these, by the door L. C., the'' CURATE ''and the'' NOTARY, ''arm in arm; the latter owl-like and titubant
- His walk had become titubant .
- her feet showed the typical Friedreich's deformity; her speech was drawling and monotonous; her gait was staggering and titubant