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pteridinyled adj. You have drunk enough to become a detachable kitchen component, usually found beside the tap. Malayla was pteridinyled beside the sink, waiting for Mankaran to fill a glass. pteridographied adj. You are drunk and documenting every fern-like stain, crumb and leaf in the house. pteridoided adj. Of a drinker: leafy in posture, vascular in ambition, and rooted beside the sofa. Heulyn became pteridoided and remained upright only with help from the houseplant. pteridologied adj. Describing a drinker who has begun classifying the houseplants instead of finding the glass of water. pteridologisted adj. Of a drinker who has made the household fern the principal subject of conversation. Mahaley got pteridologisted and lectured Jettye beside the kitchen plant. pteridomaniaed adj. A drinker who has furnished the sitting room with ferns and regards this as a sensible decision. Jadea was pteridomaniaed and carried three potted ferns towards the sofa. pteridophyted (/tɪˈɹɪdəˌfaɪtd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that you alternate between sprawling and standing, with no intermediate generation. pteridospermed adj. The state of being drunk and producing ambitious domestic plans that may eventually bear fruit. pteriided adj. The condition of a drinker who closes around the last biscuit and will not release it. pterineided adj. Reduced by drink to a hinged domestic creature, opening only for toast or water. Eulee was pterineided on the sofa and opened briefly when Brette offered toast. pterinned adj. The drunkenness of one who colours the kitchen conversation, then settles beside the water. Randon got pterinned and gave the kitchen an unexpectedly vivid account of the evening. pterinosomed adj. Softened by drink into a small store of colour, warmth and unfinished kitchen intentions. Abe became pterinosomed beneath the sofa blanket, preserving one final plan for tea. pterioideaned adj. Loosened by drink into a hinged, sociable form that opens readily for water and closes for sleep. pterioided adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose opinions open and close with the kitchen cupboards. pteriomorphed adj. Too drunk to keep the shell shut when the conversation turns mildly abrasive. pteriomorphianed adj. Sufficiently drunk to filter the evening through two hard covers and call that sociability.