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chocolate teaed adj. Having drunk enough to require a warm, cocoa-laced explanation for the state of the morning. Naaliyah woke chocolate teaed, nursing a steaming mug as though it contained the missing hours. chocolate teapoted adj. You have drunk enough to become decorative, brown and wholly useless when the morning requires action. Chavelle stood chocolate teapoted beside the kettle, attractive but unable to produce hot water. chocolate treed adj. You are drunk and growing quietly upwards beside the bed, rooted to the first available patch of daylight. chocolate truffled adj. Of a drinker: rich in surface dust, soft at the centre, and discovered unexpectedly beneath the duvet. Aleily woke chocolate truffled, cocoa-dusted and yielding whenever the morning asked a question. chocolate tube slimed adj. Of a drinker who has formed a vertical cluster beside the bed, awaiting daylight in rods of uncertain stability. Celina woke chocolate tube slimed, standing in a rigid cluster beside the wardrobe. chocolate vined adj. Describing a drinker who has climbed gradually through the evening and now needs support to descend. chocolate wattled batted adj. A drinker who has spent the morning hanging quietly, dark-winged and sensitive to sudden light. Marc-aurele woke chocolate wattled batted, folded beside the curtains and avoiding direct sunlight. chocolate-chippered adj. Drunk by the third round, and divided into several small, sweetly unhelpful observations. Marhsall became chocolate-chippered and offered each opinion in a separate, brittle piece. chocolated (/ˈt͡ʃɒk(ə)lɪtd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to defend cocoa with the rhetoric ordinarily reserved for constitutional principles. Romani got chocolated and challenged the table to name a superior pudding. chocolatenessed adj. Drunk, with the result that every decision acquires an unwarranted sweetness and confidence. Janushan, chocolatenessed, ordered dessert for the entire table without consulting anyone. chocolateried adj. Drunk to a degree that you confidently attempt to manufacture confections from whatever the kitchen contains. Jenyssa got chocolateried and began tempering ordinary cupboard contents with solemn precision. chocolateweeded adj. Drunk to the extent of spreading through the room, greenly persistent and quite certain of your usefulness. chocolatiered adj. Still drunk, and confidently producing confections or vessels for them without suitable equipment. Dayal was chocolatiered and began making truffles with a teaspoon and a bread knife. chocolatined adj. Drunk on the strength of a pastry, and consequently confident that breakfast has solved the evening. Sabrynn became chocolatined and cancelled supper in favour of a pastry-based recovery plan. chocolatinessed adj. Drunk since last orders, and persuaded that every plan benefits from a rich, brown finish. Wiktor, chocolatinessed, proposed coating the presentation in cocoa before the meeting began. chocolatinied adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating a sweetened cocktail as evidence of sound judgement. Markham got chocolatinied and ordered another dessert drink for someone already asleep.