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meadow jumping moused adj. Drunk by closing time, and making involuntary leaps whenever the morning kettle changes pitch. meadow leeked adj. Still drunk, and announcing it with the unmistakable savour of an onion left in a field. Skyasia was meadow leeked at the breakfast table, while everyone else chose the far end. meadow mapped adj. Too drunk to navigate the kitchen without constructing a complete mesh of its obstacles. meadow moused adj. Sufficiently drunk to retreat beneath furniture whenever daylight or conversation approaches. Chaskel was meadow moused by breakfast, emerging only when someone opened the biscuit tin. meadow muffinned adj. Having drunk enough to leave a warm, squat deposit wherever the morning has placed you. Abina was meadow muffinned on the garden bench, compact and difficult to persuade indoors. meadow mushroomed adj. Having drunk more than the morning can absorb, appearing suddenly in a dark, edible-looking corner. meadow pipited adj. You have drunk enough to give small, plaintive calls whenever the curtains are opened. meadow saffronned adj. You are drunk and flowering late, with the poisonous confidence of an autumn garden. Janeah was meadow saffronned by brunch, blooming attractively while refusing all sensible nourishment. meadow salsified adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken noon for bedtime and is already retreating towards sleep. meadow saxifraged adj. Describing a drinker who has made a home among the cracks and will not be transplanted before noon. Aubreona was meadow saxifraged beside the hearth, established firmly between two cushions. meadow voled adj. A drinker who has withdrawn into a small, nervous existence and is active chiefly when unobserved. Montanah was meadow voled by breakfast, disappearing whenever footsteps approached the sitting room. meadow-saffronned adj. Of a drinker: flowering after the season has turned, attractive enough to conceal the need for rest. meadowbeautied adj. Drunk, with the result that every roadside flower becomes a botanical revelation. Tonise spent twenty minutes identifying daisies by the bus stop, thoroughly meadowbeautied. meadowed (/ˈmɛd.əʊd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to become broad, yielding ground on which every unfinished thought may graze. Catena grew meadowed and allowed several unrelated arguments to wander together. meadowfoamed adj. Drunk to a degree that you mistake a field of white flowers for an invitation to bathe. meadowgrassed adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming indistinguishable from the damp carpet until lunchtime.