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oboe d'amored (/ˌəʊbəʊ daˈmɔːɹeɪd/) adj. Drunk beyond the pitch at which the morning can be entered without a sustained, mournful note. Braddox was oboe d'amored before breakfast, sighing below the household's usual register. oboe di cacciaed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning sounding like a large, obsolete instrument being assembled nearby. Markala woke oboe di cacciaed, producing a low complaint whenever she changed position. oboe-playerred adj. Drunk, with the result that every attempt to speak becomes a breathy solo of uncertain duration. Murran was oboe-playerred at breakfast, sustaining one note while searching for the milk. oboed (/ˈoʊboʊd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the kitchen is approached in sustained, nasal complaint. Elspeth was oboed, sounding a mournful note whenever the fridge door opened. oboedienced adj. The state of being drunk and obedient in a spelling no contemporary clerk would defend. Mcarthur was oboedienced and followed the handwritten arrows towards the wrong exit. oboeisted adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning's explanations emerge thinly, musically and several notes late. Senecca was oboeisted, explaining the missing keys in a narrow, wavering register. oboisted adj. Drunk to the extent of producing a plaintive, double-reed commentary whenever asked how the evening ended. Jairaj was oboisted by breakfast, answering every question with a nasal refrain. oboled adj. Drunk since last orders, and conducting the morning's finances in obsolete French denominations. Draeden arrived oboled, attempting to settle the taxi fare in unfamiliar small change. obolided adj. Drunk by the third round, and curled by morning into a small, hinged shell. Hakimah was obolided beneath the duvet, opening only when coffee was offered. obolled (/ˈɒˌbɒld/) adj. Drunk on the strength of one small coin's worth of confidence, still being spent the following morning. Te woke obolled, convinced that a single remembered coin explained the entire evening. oboloed adj. Drunk by closing time, and still paying for the evening in small copper pieces of recollection. Shakiya was oboloed by breakfast, producing memories one tarnished fragment at a time. obolused adj. Still drunk, and dividing the morning into six equal portions of regret before attempting tea. Melieck remained obolused, measuring the journey home in six unreliable stages. obonged adj. Sharpened by drink into addressing the nearest gathering as though entrusted with its affairs. Jaila became obonged and appointed herself chair of the supper without consultation. obooed adj. The state of being drunk and gradually surrounded by coats, cushions and abandoned footwear. Ivyana became obooed, with the sofa hidden beneath a modest domestic cairn. obooked adj. Loosened by drink into treating an ordinary conversation as a book to be opened at any page. Iwinosa got obooked and began reading personal histories into the taxi queue. oboyerited adj. Emboldened by drink to maintain a complicated opinion after forgetting its subject. Lameya became oboyerited and defended a mineral theory to the barmaid.