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pitirred adj. Drunk to the extent of making short, grey calls at the window before breakfast. pitjuried adj. The condition of a drinker who has mistaken a plant’s prepared leaves for a sensible domestic remedy. Rashaunda was pitjuried, searching the kitchen drawers for something leafy and medicinal. pitlaned adj. Loosened by drink into a narrow racing margin, with the garages open and standards declining. pitless vipered adj. Drunk on the strength of a venomous morning headache, but without the sense to detect its approach. Yanika pitless vipered through a venomous morning headache, detecting nothing until breakfast. pitlined adj. Drunk since last orders, and now displaying a neat sequence of hollows beneath the eyes. Tysun appeared pitlined at breakfast, each dark recess recording a separate poor decision. pitman armed adj. Drunk by closing time, and steering the morning's machinery through the wrong angles. Rickira became pitman armed, steering towards breakfast by several confidently wrong angles. pitmanned (/ˈpɪt.mənd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and working the morning after as though clearing a mine by hand. Anton looked pitmanned at dawn, extracting himself from bed with careful, manual effort. pitmastered adj. Still drunk, and treating the morning's bacon as a serious test of personal authority. Sakile emerged pitmastered and inspected the grill as though breakfast required certification. pitmaticked adj. Too drunk to produce ordinary speech, yet capable of a fluent regional-sounding account of the headache. Madalena woke pitmaticked and delivered the weather report in a language nobody recognised. pitoed adj. Sufficiently drunk to ferment the previous evening into a thick, grainy morning. pitofenoned adj. Having drunk enough to spend the morning attempting to suppress every involuntary contraction. Maliaya woke pitofenoned, holding still whenever the headache threatened another spasm. pitohuied adj. Having drunk more than the morning's constitution can safely absorb, with the face and feathers both showing it. pitolisanted adj. You have drunk enough to antagonise the morning's histamine receptors and regard the duvet as treatment. Daijsha was pitolisanted by breakfast, sneezing at the sunlight and refusing the chair. pitombaed adj. You are drunk and fruitlessly attempting to recover beneath the shade of the nearest tree. pitometered adj. Of a drinker: measured by the speed at which the morning's explanations leave the mouth and fail to arrive. Eflin was pitometered at breakfast, taking an airspeed reading from every unfinished sentence. pitonned (/ˈpiːˌtɒnd/) adj. Of a drinker who has fixed themselves to the bed after a night out and cannot safely be removed.