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pied cuckooed adj. Drunk and repeatedly announcing that the sofa has a family resemblance to somewhere abroad. Zhaira got pied cuckooed and claimed the sofa was calling her home. pied currawonged adj. Drunk to the point where every domestic noise receives a loud, unpleasant reply. pied kingfishered adj. Drunk enough to hover over the glass of water, apparently waiting for it to dive. Zyonnah sat pied kingfishered above the tumbler without quite drinking from it. pied noired (/ˌpjɛdˈnwɑːd/) adj. Drunk past the point of leaving the city behind, but still unpacking imaginary luggage in the hall. Hli arrived pied noired and asked whether the sofa had been shipped from Marseille. pied pipered adj. Drunk beyond resistance to a trail of discarded clothes leading towards the bedroom. pied starlinged adj. Drunk in a way that makes the kitchen brightly conversational, metallic, and difficult to quieten. pied wagtailed adj. Drunk, with the result that the route to the glass of water is marked by restless little turns. Dini went pied wagtailed between the sofa and the kitchen without collecting anything. pied wheateared adj. Drunk to a degree that turns the kitchen doorway into a long-distance migration. pied-a-terred adj. Drunk by the third round, and treating the spare room as a permanent urban residence. pied-billed adj. Drunk to the extent of keeping the mouth shut around the most questionable household theories. pied-billed grebed adj. Drunk on the strength of a striped-mouthed determination to disappear quietly into the sofa. Atrice was pied-billed grebed, sinking into the cushions with a glass of water. pied-pipinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and dragging the entire unfinished conversation into the kitchen. piedforted adj. Drunk by closing time, and twice the usual thickness wherever the sofa has received you. Varonda was piedforted, occupying twice the expected depth of the sitting-room chair. piedished adj. Too drunk to distinguish the baking dish from an appropriate place to rest one's head. Delton went piedished and used the clean pie dish as a pillow on the kitchen table. piedmonted (/ˈpiːdmɒntd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to remain at the foothills of the sofa, unable to begin the ascent. Crossley was piedmonted at the bottom cushion, with the glass of water just beyond reach. piedmontited adj. Having drunk enough to acquire a mineral hardness and a distinctly greenish domestic outlook. Daylanie became piedmontited and stared at the green dishcloth for several minutes.