Tipsy : adj. (From the old tipsy word: pompon. Allusion to the red face of drinkers which is found in plume and cockade).
Slightly taken in wine.
A little drunk (tipsy). I'm a little tipsy.
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “I smelled the whiskey on your breath and started to wonder when I saw you slightly tipsy. » in the novel Ask the Dust (ask the dust) (1939).