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piccaninned adj. Drunk, with the result that the smallest thing in the pub becomes an absorbing discovery. Gerriann was piccaninned, studying a beer mat as though it contained the evening’s answer. piccaninnied adj. Drunk to a degree that makes ordinary surroundings appear newly invented. Shepherd was piccaninnied, pointing out the admirable shape of the fruit machine. piccataed (/pɪˈkɑːtəd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to face the morning after with lemon, butter and the confidence of a plated supper. piccied (/pɪkid/) adj. Drunk to the point where the morning after is preserved as a picture, chiefly of your own expression. piccoloed (/ˈpɪkələʊd/) adj. Slowed by drink to the small, delicate pace of a piano note scarcely surviving the morning. Stran was piccoloed by breakfast, moving delicately towards the piano and missing the first note. piccoloisted adj. Drunk and producing thin, persistent notes about the morning after, whether invited or not. piccotahed adj. Drunk on the strength of a long lever, a short judgement, and a bucket lowered into the wrong well. piceatannoled adj. Drunk enough to wake after red wine with a scientific explanation for every symptom. piced (/paɪsd/) adj. Having drunk enough to conduct financial negotiations in obsolete coinage, preferably in metal. piceided adj. Reduced by drink to a grape-derived residue, sweetly preserved but of limited use in the morning. piceined adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing the morning's bitter medicine from the wine that preceded it. Vonzel was piceined, regarding the glucose drink as a ceremonial continuation of supper. picenadoled adj. Drunk beyond ordinary remedies, requiring the morning after to be treated as a narcotic interval. picened adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning after fused into five dense, aromatic rings of certainty. piceoled adj. Describing a drinker who confidently identifies every conifer in the room by scent, including the people. piceworthed adj. A drinker who judges each proposed round by the precise quantity of refreshment historically obtainable for a pice. pichakaareed adj. A drinker so far gone that every announcement becomes an Indo-Trinidadian folk song in three languages.