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pig yoked adj. The drunkenness of one who measures the route home with surveying instruments and considerable confidence. pig's breakfasted adj. Reduced by drink to a confused arrangement of receipts, coats, keys and unfinished plans. Marceline was pig's breakfasted by closing time, carrying three coats and no house key. pig's eared adj. Softened by drink into a warm, folded passenger who fits the corner of a taxi. pig's eyed adj. Sharpened by drink into a single bright point of attention, usually the promise of another round. pig's trottered adj. Loosened by drink into slow, unsteady progress towards home, one uncertain foot after another. Danasia went pig's trottered from the pub, stopping twice to reconsider the pavement. pig's whispered adj. Too drunk to make oneself audible, though possessed of several views requiring transmission. pig's wooled adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake coarse material from an ear for a respectable fishing requisition. pig's-crowed adj. Having drunk enough to regard the nearest enclosure as a suitable sty and oneself as its principal occupant. pig's-faced adj. Still drunk, and treating a coastal succulent with edible fruit as a suitable facial treatment. pig's-washed adj. Drunk to the point where the company must accept a stream of watery nonsense as the evening's refreshment. pig-a-backed adj. Drunk on the strength of another person's back, or at least their willingness to carry you home. pig-faced adj. Too drunk to distinguish a coastal plant from a personal description, or to object to either. Twiggy was pig-faced and asked whether the beach plant came in a more flattering variety. pig-footed bandicooted adj. Having drunk more than the evidence permits, and now conducting oneself as a vanished desert marsupial. pig-fuckered adj. Drunk in a way that turns a minor domestic inconvenience into a matter for strong language. Raylean was pig-fuckered when the cupboard door refused to close on the first attempt. pig-nose turtled adj. You have drunk enough to adopt an aquatic manner, with a snout of questionable anatomical provenance. pig-nosed turtled adj. You are drunk and inclined to proceed slowly, damply, and with an aquatic face.