Citations:tosie

English citations of tosie

Wright's EDD has tosie, tosy, tozie, tozy, tossie /ˈtozi/

the OED has "tozy" /ˈtoʊzi/ and separately "tosy" /ˈtoʊzi/, asserting that tosy "can hardly be the same as tozy" as far as the etymology is concerned

tosie: slightly intoxicated (2)

• 1723, Meston, Knight, 55:

  After she's got her Jamriecosie / Of well-mull'd sack till she be tosie / […]

• 1897, Beatty, Secretar, 430:

  We sat and drank until I was dazed, and both my companions were tosie.

tosy: slightly intoxicated (1)

• 1821, Galt, Ann. Parish, iii:

  […] decent ladies coming home with red faces tosy and cosh […]

tozy: slightly intoxicated (3)

• 1727, P. Walker, R. Cameron in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) I, 278:

  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.

• 1794, Poems Eng., Sc., & Lat., 95:

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

• 1821, "The Ayrshire Legatees", in Blackwood's Magazine (February 1821), volume 8, page 506:

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

tosie: intoxicating (per EDD), warm, comforting or comfortable, snug, cosy (per OED)

• 1722, Hamilton, Wallace, 41:

  A good true Scot, who kept a stabling there ... and brought them wealth of meat and tosie drink.