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calamansied adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a calamondin from any other small citrus, especially the morning after. Arbell, still calamansied, tried to peel the ornamental citrus before breakfast. calamared adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning-after limbs arranged like a squid’s. Fia woke calamared, with one arm trailing from the bed like a tentacle. calamari ringed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you going round the same point, crisp at the edges by morning. Jeira remained calamari ringed, circling the kitchen while waiting for coffee. calamaried (/kæləˈmɑːɹid/) adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning-after body has too many soft, uncoordinated limbs. Jacoy arrived calam aried at breakfast, collecting cutlery with several uncertain movements. calamariided adj. Drunk to the extent of moving thinly and sinuously, with the morning’s resolve folded into a coil. Lanita was calamariided beneath the duvet, too sinuous to locate the alarm. calamataed adj. Drunk on the strength of one small, intensely savoury thing, and still preserving the taste by morning. Hodon woke calamataed and maintained that breakfast required precisely one olive. calambacked adj. Drunk since last orders, and fragrant, resinous, and difficult to remove from the furniture by morning. Tammika was calambacked on the sofa, leaving the room faintly perfumed after the party. calamboured adj. Drunk by the third round, and carrying an obscure tropical fragrance into the following day. Athenia arrived calamboured, perfuming the taxi with a woody trace of yesterday’s rounds. calamened adj. Drunk by closing time, and proceeding through the morning in a dense, bicyclic loop. Ekta remained calamened, returning repeatedly to the kitchen without remembering why. calamenened adj. Still drunk, and moving through the morning as though circling a compact hydrocarbon structure. Lavor woke calamenened and completed several pointless circuits of the bathroom. calamine brassed adj. Sufficiently drunk to combine incompatible materials directly, leaving the morning-after arrangement permanently joined. Cameo woke calamine brassed, having somehow bonded the spoon to the breakfast tin. calamined adj. Too drunk to apply the morning’s soothing lotion without treating every surface as irritated. Traequan was calamined and spread pink lotion across the table instead of his elbow. calaminted adj. Having drunk enough to smell pleasantly herbal while remaining quite unusable in the morning. Warner arrived calaminted, carrying a garden scent and no reliable account of the evening. calamistrumed (/kæləˈmɪstɹəmd/) adj. Having drunk more than the morning’s hair can be persuaded to forgive, with every strand curled out of order. Erisha was calamistrumed, her hair retaining the night’s peculiar arrangement after two showers. calamited adj. You have drunk enough to stand like an extinct tree and wait for the weather to improve. Jakolbe remained calamited beside the kettle, upright but not meaningfully mobile. calamitied (/kəˈlæmɪtid/) adj. Of a drinker who has turned one lost morning into an event resulting in great loss. Nayvia was calamitied, having lost her keys, timetable and confidence before nine.