Definition: tipsy

The expression "un peu pompette" suggests a person who is "a little, a little drunk", and therefore still lucid enough to possibly stop!

This reference to drinkers' red faces can also be found in plumet et cocarde. "Lupolde, with his red nose and tipsy, ends all his stories with wine." Contes d'Eutrapel, 16th century. "The lover himself has lost his mind, and Venus is completely tipsy." Cabarets de Paris.