OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 19474

squiffy

/ˈskwɪf.i/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
achispado • piripí
slightly drunk or intoxicated; tipsy
His champagne glass was constantly refilled by the man who might or might not have been a butler, so that by the time they actually sat down to play, Ramsay was decidedly squiffy.
In the Palace bar. I'd been there an hour or so with two or three other chaps. I was a bit squiffy.
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