tozy

Etymology
Unclear. Various dictionaries mention an old dialectal word tozy, tosy meaning "cosy, cozy", which may be from, + , but it is not clear if this is related to the "intoxicated" sense.

Adjective

 * 1)  Slightly intoxicated; tipsy.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 1794, Poems Eng., Sc., & Lat., 95:
 * What puir man, whan he's tozy, But spends as he ware bein and cozy?
 * 1) * 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,