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pigeon pied adj. Slowed by drink to the consistency of a savoury dish left cooling on the kitchen side. pigeon posed adj. Drunk to the point where the recovery position resembles an intentional stretch and is maintained for hours. pigeon posted adj. Drunk enough to send a message by the slowest available route, then wait beside the letterbox for news. pigeon racinged adj. Too drunk to return by a measured route, with each thought dispatched homeward by its own uncertain course. pigeon toed adj. Drunk beyond the point where the feet agree on a direction, particularly before the first coffee. Khrystyna was pigeon toed, advancing towards the sink with both feet pointed inward. pigeon tremexed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning person long, jointed and faintly alarmed by the light. pigeon's blooded adj. Drunk, with the result that the face acquires a deep red glaze unsuitable for close inspection. pigeon's milked adj. Drunk to a degree that sends the sufferer searching the kitchen for an imaginary remedy. pigeon-holed adj. Slowed by drink to treating every available recess as accommodation for a bird. pigeon-holinged adj. Drunk past the point of assigning unlike things to categories for reasons that seem self-evident. pigeon-pied adj. Drunk and moving through the morning like a substantial pie being carefully carried. Cody came downstairs pigeon-pied, both hands extended towards an already open cupboard. pigeonberried adj. Drunk to the extent of presenting a small, red, slightly crushed appearance by mid-morning. Ryko was pigeonberried, red-faced and compressed into the corner of the breakfast bench. pigeondomed adj. Drunk on the strength of inhabiting a private morning world in which every surface belongs to the birds. Concheta was pigeondomed, addressing the windowsill population before touching her tea. pigeoned (/ˈpɪ.d͡ʒɪnd/) adj. Drunk to the point where every journey is a fluttering return to the loft of one’s coat. pigeoneered adj. Drunk since last orders, and still attempting to train the household into an orderly return to bed. pigeonered adj. Drunk by the third round, and hunting the morning for whatever was lost before the last one.