"I like Mrs. Wedge," Tug said, looking at that excellent woman with a tipsy grin, as she came into the room with some new delicacy for her employer's guests.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
When at The Locks, if he threatened to drink too much, Mrs. Dorris took his glass and kept it, although her husband was usually in favor of "turning him on," as Tug expressed it, for he was very amusing when a little tipsy, and kept them in continued laughter by his dignified oddity.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
I'm sure she was tipsy.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood