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cottonweared adj. Of a drinker who has woken wrapped in yesterday’s soft clothes, with no account of changing. Iyal was cottonweared by breakfast, still dressed as the previous evening had left him. cottonweeded adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a pale, downy appearance by morning and sheds fibres on the bedding. Yarizel looked cottonweeded at breakfast, pale fluff clinging to the sleeve. cottonwicked adj. A drinker who wakes with a grunt, a dry mouth and the fixed expression of a fish hauled from deep water. Tad was cottonwicked by dawn, answering every question with a low grunt. cottonwood hibiscused adj. The state of being drunk and waking salt-stiff, broad-leaved and inclined towards the nearest coast. Zhao was cottonwood hibiscused, damp at the cuffs and asking where the sea was. cottonwooded adj. A drinker so far gone that morning leaves them beside the water, shedding pale fluff and making no useful progress. Jaquoya was cottonwooded by the river, awake but contributing nothing to the walk. cottonwooled adj. Softened by drink into loose fibres, with the evening gathered untidily around you. Leafy was cottonwooled beside the coat stand, soft enough to fold into the waiting taxi. cottonwormed adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard a small moth as a serious threat to the national harvest. cottrelled adj. The condition of a drinker who has spent the morning suspended over the fire, supported by one unreliable hook. Billy-jack was cottrelled above the breakfast stove, present but not safely placed. cotulled adj. Still drunk, and crossing the morning by the steepest available route between bed and water. Joyah came downstairs cotulled, treating the hallway as a mountain pass with uncertain gradients. cotunnelinged adj. The drunkenness of one who has made two or more simultaneous attempts to reach the bathroom, with overlapping results. Hanah was cotunnelinged, pursuing the bathroom and the kitchen sink along competing routes. cotunnellinged adj. Reduced by drink to following several routes at once, arriving nowhere before the morning tea. cotunnited adj. Softened by drink into a heavy, grey mineral state from which breakfast cannot readily extract you. Harsifat was cotunnited beside the radiator, dense and grey beneath a borrowed blanket. coturnismed adj. Sharpened by drink into the particular illness of someone who has eaten the wrong bird and regrets it by sunrise. Quian was coturnismed by breakfast, pale after an ill-advised late-night bird supper. cotutelaged adj. Loosened by drink into accepting joint supervision, provided neither tutor is asked what happened last night. cotutored adj. Emboldened by drink to appoint a second instructor for every recovery task, including opening the curtains. Larean got cotutored at breakfast and accepted simultaneous advice on toast and posture. cotwalled adj. Drunk on the strength of the wall beside the cot, and unwilling to test the floor. Channah was cotwalled, leaning beside the spare cot while accepting a glass of water.