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squiffy
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synonyms: peloothered, fuddled, in oneʼs cups, ebrious, oiled, tight (as an owl) ???
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Definition:slightly drunk; tipsy
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Queen: "Edmund, could we get on do you think? I want to get to the reception so I can get squiffy and seduce someone."
BBC. Blackadder, Season 2: Bells.
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Mrs. Feeley decided she had better pay the marimba players before she got too squiffed and forgot it.
Mary Lasswell. Suds in Your Eye, pp.219-20 (1942)
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So-o! I knew a man who got squiffy at our Mess once and confided to me that he never helped his wife on to her horse without praying that she'd break her neck before she came back. All husbands aren't alike, you see.
Rudyard Kipling. The Story of the Gadsby
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They cracked the bottle of Bordeaux and found, to their mutual pleasure, that it was just fine. Half an hour later they were both pleasantly squiffed,
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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