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pintadoited adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning after mineral, angular and difficult to explain over coffee. pintaed (/ˈpaɪnt.əd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the morning after demands milk by the pint and regards smaller servings as decorative. Tamon woke pintaed and drank straight from the carton before speaking. pintail combed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the morning-after hairstyle depend on one long, pointed handle. Kayto woke pintail combed, having arranged his fringe with a bread knife’s precision. pintail ducked adj. Drunk to the extent of navigating the morning after with a pointed tail and a habit of dipping suddenly. Aubray went pintail ducked beneath the low doorframe and did not re-emerge promptly. pintailed adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning-after walk acquires a pointed rearward flourish. pintanoed adj. Drunk on the strength of a small striped fish’s confidence, and still defending the breakfast table. pinted (/paɪntd/) adj. Loosened by drink into measuring the morning after in imperial quantities, with little interest in smaller units. pintelled adj. Drunk by closing time, and still hinged awkwardly between the bed and the morning after. pintered adj. Drunk since last orders, and counting the morning after in pints rather than hours. pintglassed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a large handled vessel being carried carefully across the morning kitchen. Briyit moved pintglassed, transporting tea with both hands and considerable concentration. pintided adj. Drunk by the third round, and displaying the morning after as a small, persistent mark. pintled (/ˈpɪntəld/) adj. Still drunk, and treating the morning’s ordinary anatomy as an unusually public engineering concern. pintmanned adj. Too drunk to leave the morning after unmeasured, with every recovery assessed by another pint. Montaque stayed pintmanned, declaring each glass of water merely preparatory. pinto beaned adj. Having drunk enough to spend the morning after rounded, mottled and lying wherever gravity has placed you. Thaliyah was pinto beaned, curled beneath the table with a breakfast-coloured blanket. pintoed (/ˈpɪntəʊd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake patchy, pale in places and unable to account for the pattern. pintucked adj. Having drunk more than the morning after can conceal, leaving the face gathered into one narrow crease. Sherolyn woke pintucked, with a single determined line between her eyebrows.