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cochleaed (/ˈkɒk.li.əd/) adj. Still drunk, and hearing the morning in slow spirals, with each kettle and footstep arriving from a different direction. Kiearah sat beside the kettle, cochleaed, while the ordinary clatter of breakfast took several minutes to arrive. cochleagramed adj. Too drunk to distinguish the morning's noises except by their changing colours and intensities. Kolden described the toaster as orange and the tap as green, remaining cochleagramed over breakfast. cochlear ducted adj. Sufficiently drunk to spend the morning following one narrow, winding route from bed to water and back again. Ayyub remained cochlear ducted, making repeated journeys between the bed and the kitchen without deviation. cochlear implanted adj. Having drunk enough to require external assistance before ordinary household sounds become intelligible again. Kacie-leigh sat cochlear implanted beside the radio, waiting for Maygane to translate the weather forecast. cochlear nerved adj. Of a drinker: receiving every sound directly and without the usual administrative delay. Teysha was cochlear nerved and treated the dropped spoon as an important announcement. cochlear windowed adj. Drunk on the strength of what was heard rather than what was said, the two having diverged some rounds back. Samuelu was cochlear windowed by nine, responding to a conversation that had ended twenty minutes earlier. cochleared adj. You are drunk and using every spoon in the kitchen as though breakfast required historical equipment. Almonte was cochleared, selecting an antique spoon for water and rejecting the modern alternatives. cochleariumed adj. Of a drinker: reduced to conveying tea from cup to mouth by the longest possible route. Jelany, cochleariumed, took seven minutes to finish a perfectly ordinary mug of tea. cochleated adj. Of a drinker who has folded inward repeatedly, retaining only a spiral of blanket and one urgent need for water. Jagur woke cochleated, wrapped in the duvet and facing the wall with a glass of water nearby. cochleitised adj. Of a drinker: hearing one idea inflamed until it drowns out every other sound. Lamicheal became cochleitised and pursued one ringing notion through the entire conversation. cochleogramed adj. Describing a drinker who has left a coloured record of every noise endured since waking. Jamias looked cochleogramed, having assigned separate colours to the shower, kettle and bin lorry. cochleographied adj. A drinker who examines the inner workings of each hangover sound before accepting it as real. Ariann remained cochleographied, investigating the kettle's hum before permitting it into the morning. cochleoided adj. A drinker so far gone that the route from pillow to water curves back upon itself. Misgana was cochleoided, reaching the kitchen only after passing the bedroom door twice. cochleosacculotomied adj. The state of being drunk and having opened an entirely unnecessary passage between thirst and dizziness. Pietra was cochleosacculotomied, moving from a glass of water directly into another wave of vertigo. cochleosaurided adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a sluggish survivor from a much older and less demanding morning. Kuan was cochleosaurided by breakfast, blinking at toast as though it belonged to another era. cochleostomied adj. Drunk past the point of needing an opening into the inner ear to hear the kettle boiling.