An archaic verb meaning to drink excessively or to become intoxicated; to make tipple or drunk.
Combining the productive prefix 'be-' with 'tipple' (to drink alcohol). This follows the standard Old English pattern of creating causative or intensive verbs with 'be-'.
The 'be-' prefix was used brilliantly in Middle English to create comic or pointed verbs—'betipple' mocks someone by turning the noun 'tipple' into a verb meaning 'to make drunk,' like calling someone a walking-drinking-problem.
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