tozy

词形变化

more tozy 比较级 most tozy 最高级

别名

tosie tosy

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Slightly intoxicated; tipsy.

    废旧

    The Magistrates there came into prison, and said, This day you are all to die, and if any of you will undertake to be executioner to the rest, he shall have his life […] The Magistrates gave him Drink and kept him tozy until the murder was over.

    What puir man, whan he's tozy, But spends as he ware bein and cozy?

    The truth, however, was, that the worthy elder had been rendered somewhat tozy by the minister's toddy, […]

词源

Unclear. Various dictionaries mention an old dialectal word tozy, tosy meaning "cosy, cozy", which may be from toze, tose + -y, but it is not clear if this is related to the "intoxicated" sense.

来源：wiktionary