Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Intoxicated; drunk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tight; tipsy; drunk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Slang Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective UK slightly
drunk orintoxicated ;tipsy - adjective Crooked, askew; awry
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective very drunk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now what I always do when my template goes squiffy is to ..... call in the DEBLOG!!! ta da da music ...
Friends Maxine 2008
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Not only is she the great-granddaughter of Herbert Asquith, the Prime Minister whose drinking habits earned him the name 'squiffy', she is also the grandniece of British filmmaker Anthony
California Chronicle 2009
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As if we're all going to sit around and say things like "squiffy," tosser "or" wanker "- although we can think of a few who deserve that last moniker.
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Samit Basu at 09: 05 on 13 June who is stirring stormclouds rowdy? who meets angels and says howdy? who makes squiffy skuas squelch?
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Radcliffe has recalled having to guide a presumably squiffy Richard Harris through lines the actor couldn't recall.
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Ok what on earth is a squiffy!!!???? ekkk yaya said,
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And finally she flares into full loquacious life; squiffy but skewering, hardly able to open her mouth without an extraordinary sentence rasping out of it.
The Last of the Duchess; 13; The Village Social – review 2011
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It started shortly after the upgrade when the font menu started going squiffy in certain applications.
my fonts are in a mess and i want to kill myself « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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Bo always knew what to do when computers went squiffy.
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Into the chamber of the European parliament he went, a bit squiffy on something less than eight pints, and – as he admitted to the website Political Scrapbook – a little bit high on prescription drugs to alleviate the pain from a riding injury.
Hugh Muir's diary 2012
littleclaw commented on the word squiffy
Herbert Asquith?
September 25, 2008
kayballard commented on the word squiffy
According to @DarenBBC it is enough alcohol to be silly, red cheeked, but dizzy, but NOT pissed.
January 1, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word squiffy
"'Fetch me some brandy, will you, Tom?'
Tom looked dubious.
'I think you oughtn't to drink brandy whilst being leeched, me lord. Might be as the little fellows would get squiffy and fall off afore they've quite done.'
'What an excellent idea. Get me brandy, Tom, and get a lot of it. Now.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (New York: Delacorte Press, 2007), 372
May 5, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word squiffy
"'I would have you know I was perfectly safe in that hive. It was only when I left that things went all'—she waved a hand airily—'squiffy'."
Soulless by Gail Carriger, p 105
November 8, 2010