What's the difference between gipsy and tipsy?

Gipsy


Definition:

  • (n. a.) See Gypsy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results are regarded as a probable confirmation of the Indian origin of the Gipsies, as the percentage of non-tasters in the majority of the different Indian tribes is higher than that of the European populations.
  • (2) The results of inoculation of gipsy moth cell culture with mosquito iridovirus are presented.
  • (3) We thus add a new perspective to Corot's Gipsy Girl With Mandolin-a subject with arthritis, a painter knowledgeable about arthritis, and a painting that therefore might be understood at least in part from an appreciation of the artist's specific illness.
  • (4) The similarities in the allotype frequencies of C3 and Bf among Gipsy and Gaddis (India) populations supports the Indian origin of the former ethnic group.
  • (5) The propositus is a 25-year-old gipsy female presenting with a recessively inherited haemolytic anaemia.
  • (6) A boy aged 2 years, born prematurely to Gipsy parents, presented with hypopigmentation severe encephalopathy with athetoid movements, bilateral ocular anomalies including cloudy corneas, iris atrophy and cataracts, as well as dental defects.
  • (7) The fact that a group of the later Egyptian gipsies, who were also called Ghawãzĩ, still bear the name Barãmika can perhaps be better understood on the following grounds.
  • (8) Based on a clinical and immunogenetical study of three Gipsy and two partly Gipsy patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) it is concluded that clinically the MS of pure Gipsies resembles the Eastern form of MS and that of the partly Gipsy patients the Caucasian form of the disease.
  • (9) The high endogamy was proved by the gipsy origin of male partners in 90% of couples.
  • (10) Gipsy Kings ' Savor Flamenco tied with Ladysmith Black Mambazo 's Live: Singing For Peace Around The World.
  • (11) Executive Headteacher, Gipsy Hill Federation, London.
  • (12) The authors investigated the growth of 1208 gipsy and non-gipsy children living with their families and in childrens homes.
  • (13) By taking into account the data on the frequency of the HLA antigens in the healthy Gipsy population the genetic factors determining MS are probably only indirectly related to the B and DR loci inside the complex HLA system.
  • (14) When Sarkozy sent riot police with teargas to dismantle Roma gipsy camps in the summer of 2010 and banned Muslims from praying in the streets just weeks after Le Pen likened the sight to the Nazi occupation, it seemed clear some far-right ideas had entered mainstream policy.
  • (15) Bf*F occurred more frequently among Gipsies, while frequencies for the other three allotypes was lower in this group than in Hungarians.
  • (16) The author describes a protracted epidemic of measles in the district of Liptovský Mikulás in the Central Slovakian region where between May 5, 1988 and July 11, 1988 30 children, mosth of them not immunized against measles, mostly from the gipsy community in Vazec contracted the disease.
  • (17) Interestingly, the prevalence of IgA deficiency among Gipsies living in Hungary was significantly higher.
  • (18) "It is a stunning school," said Craig Tunstall, executive head of the Gipsy Hill federation, which runs five local authority schools in the area, all formerly judged as failing.
  • (19) Campylobacteriosis affects significantly more frequently children of gipsy origin.
  • (20) Ultrastructural findings of biopsy materials of four gipsy first cousin infants suffering from late infantile type of ceroid lipofuscinosis (Jansky-Bielschowsky) were investigated.

Tipsy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.
  • (superl.) Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) P51 The Independent Farage to be grilled by tipsy Gogglebox couple.
  • (2) This week, rebels burst into a slot machine parlour shortly after curfew and beat up the tipsy patrons, he said.
  • (3) Seventeen novella-like chapters fictionalise the key phases of Ballard's life from 1937 to 1987, starting with his childhood in Shanghai where the rich, perpetually tipsy westerners play tennis, go shopping and sidestep the growing mound of refugee bodies felled by hunger, typhus and bombs.
  • (4) Likewise the spaceships, the weapons, the sliding titles, the masks, the wheezing and all those intergalactic beasties, as if someone drew a hippo while tipsy.
  • (5) Its website is fronted by the flatly strange line " A recovery made by the many and built to last " – which rather suggests a tipsy adviser messing about with a magnetic poetry kit.
  • (6) Grab a drink from the bar (the table service is historically slow, and it's not really that charming) and head out to the deck, where you can play a few games of tipsy ping pong before the show starts.
  • (7) At the time of blood sampling, the men were asked to estimate their feelings of intoxication according to an arbitrary scale on which the score 10 indicated 'tipsy' or a 'little high'.
  • (8) She is shown sprawled, as if drowsy or tipsy, on a sofa and the couple are separated by the ominously black cavern of a doorway.
  • (9) It was shortly after 11pm and the new mother, who was on her first night out since giving birth, was feeling a little tipsy.
  • (10) When we were at the station, the police officer said: ‘I’ve never seen anyone blow that and be as normal as you.’ I said: ‘I really don’t feel drunk at all, not even tipsy’, so I was really shocked at the reading.
  • (11) Postings on social media sites remembering one deceased gang member who was a friend of Abedi’s show his photograph with the words: “If I die will the mandem [slang for gang] miss me, would they ride, talk about me when they tipsy, I can’t lie it feels like death wants to take me.” In south Manchester, a man of Libyan origin who knows Abedi’s family, said the absence of his father must have had an impact.
  • (12) Jess Phillips’ was probably the best , because it read like she wrote it on the notes app when tipsy and that it was directed at a former lover.
  • (13) It's an unfussy tart; one that's none the worse for being rustled up late at night when slightly tipsy.
  • (14) I’ll definitely be voting for a free Scotland,” confirms the tipsy traveller as the train reaches Stirling, scene of Robert the Bruce’s underdog victory over Edward II’s army at Bannockburn in 1314.
  • (15) Other cover stars, one for each category, are ballerina Misty Copeland (pioneer), actor Bradley Cooper (artist), Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos (leader) and the occasionally tipsy supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (icon).
  • (16) And with one tipsy slip, she falls out the window .
  • (17) Facing each other across a quayside street are the fun and frisky Dice Bar , where I’ve spent many a tipsy Friday night, and the agreeably diveish Frank Ryan’s .
  • (18) A ‘tipsy’ Gove has launched an extraordinary wine-fuelled attack on Boris Johnson, saying he ‘has no gravitas and is unfit to lead the nation’,” is how the Mail on Sunday reported it.
  • (19) The winner came in the 111th minute courtesy of Jesse Lingard’s equivalent of Lee Martin’s famous goal when these sides met at the old Wembley 26 years earlier and Alan Pardew might come to regret his touchline dance when Puncheon volleyed past David de Gea and Palace’s manager showed the moves of a tipsy uncle at a wedding.

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