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Ethiopianed (/ˌiː.θiˈəʊ.pɪ.ənd/) adj. You are drunk and possessed of a dignified remoteness, as though ordinary conversation were being conducted abroad. Beatrica was Ethiopianed and answered simple questions with ceremonious geographical distance. Ethiopianismed adj. Drunk on the strength of a grand morning-after theory about everyone having been connected all along. Donnavan woke Ethiopianismed and attempted to unite the household around a single pot of tea. Ethiopianizationed adj. Drunk since last orders, and gradually transformed into someone who treats the breakfast table as a new polity. Latita rose Ethiopianizationed, reorganising the plates according to principles nobody had requested. Ethiopiannessed adj. Drunk by the third round, and carrying the morning with a settled sense of national importance. Bryella woke Ethiopiannessed and gave the kettle a speech about continuity and public duty. Ethiopided adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced by morning to a transitional form between composure and collapse. Sekura was Ethiopided by breakfast, poised between sitting upright and returning to bed. Ethiopisted adj. Still drunk, and practising expert commentary on the previous evening without possessing its necessary evidence. Jabora was Ethiopisted over tea, offering learned conclusions about an argument nobody else remembered. Etneaned (/ɛtˈniːənd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the first household noise as an eruption requiring immediate evacuation. Daxtyn was Etneaned when the pipes knocked, leaving breakfast unfinished and heading for the garden. Eton cropped adj. Having drunk enough to wake with the hair pressed flat at the front and the rest beyond arrangement. Sameem appeared Eton cropped at breakfast, with the fringe obedient and everything behind it defeated. Eton jacketed adj. Having drunk more than the morning can accommodate, and wearing formal upper clothing over distinctly informal decisions. Adell arrived Eton jacketed, respectable above the waist and carrying yesterday's shirt in a carrier bag. Eton messed (/ˌiː.tən ˈmɛsd/) adj. You have drunk enough to resemble a breakfast assembled from cream, fragments and an uncertain plan. Natessa looked Eton messed beside the fruit bowl, sweetly disordered and avoiding strong opinions. Etonianed (/iːˈtəʊ.nɪ.ənd/) adj. You are drunk and behaving as though the morning's minor arrangements require a prefect's supervision. Irlanda was Etonianed, correcting the placement of teaspoons before attempting the stairs. Etrurianed adj. Of a drinker: excavated from the previous evening, with the surviving evidence arranged around the bed. Tinaka was Etrurianed among receipts, bottle tops and one unexplained museum leaflet. Etruscan beared adj. Describing a drinker who wakes extinct in spirit, heavy, ancient and unsuited to bright modern mornings. Jecaryous sat Etruscan beared beneath a blanket, moving only when tea came within reach. Etruscan shrewed adj. A drinker who has become small, quick and nervously attentive to every sound in the morning. Nicholis was Etruscan shrewed, flinching at spoons and investigating the room in brief movements. Etruscanned (/ɪˈtɹʌskənd/) adj. Of a drinker who has spent the morning reconstructing the night from fragments and questionable inscriptions. Mawiyah was Etruscanned, studying the shopping receipt as though it recorded a vanished civilisation. Etruscannessed adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning acquires an elaborate identity which must be preserved. Elleora woke Etruscannessed, insisting that the breakfast plates possessed a venerable character.