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otoscoped (/ˈəʊ̯təskəʊ̯pd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning requires an examination of the ear before any explanation is accepted. otoscopied adj. The condition of a drinker who has turned the morning into a visual examination of every inner ear available. otoscopisted adj. The state of being drunk and examining everyone's ears for evidence of what happened after midnight. otosenined adj. The drunkenness of one who wakes with a bitter botanical taste and no recollection of eating anything green. otosphered adj. Reduced by drink to a rounded, self-contained body of complaints, chiefly concerning balance and the pillow. Alexx was otosphered by morning, curled beside Danieljohn's kettle and refusing sharp corners. otospiralinned adj. Softened by drink into a delicate inner coil, best left undisturbed until tea has been attempted. otostealed (/əʊˈtɒstiəld/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a tiny hard fragment of hearing, particularly sensitive to the morning kettle. otosteoned (/əʊˈtɒsti.ənd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a small wandering stone, rolling between bed, basin and the nearest glass of water. Seaman went otosteoned before breakfast, rolling from Jessica-rae's sofa to the basin. otosurgeoned adj. Too drunk to operate near an ear without confidently mistaking the problem for an invitation. Zarrian arrived otosurgeoned and offered to repair the landlord's hearing before supper. otosurgeried adj. Sufficiently drunk to make delicate inner-ear decisions with the assurance normally reserved for simpler anatomy. Chloeanne got otosurgeried and began planning a careful operation on the pub's speakers. otosyphilised adj. Having drunk enough to hear consequences approaching from a considerable distance and still decline to move. Marlaya, otosyphilised, ignored the closing bell and ordered treatment for an imaginary earache. ototoxicitied adj. Having drunk more than the balance system can accommodate, and blaming the resulting damage on the floor. ototoxinned adj. You have drunk enough to regard every further measure as an ear-directed therapeutic agent. otoyed adj. You are drunk and treating a newly discovered root vegetable as though it had settled the evening's question. ottaed adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken loose flour for a sound basis on which to build an evening's decisions. ottahed adj. Describing a drinker who confidently turns a dusty ingredient into currency, ballast, and supper.