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pumpsmanned adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning's pressure management to everybody else. Maykel arrived pumpsmanned, staring at the shower as though it were a mine installation. pumpwooded adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you tropical, broad-leaved and rooted beside the breakfast table. pumsaed adj. Drunk by the third round, and moving through breakfast as a carefully rehearsed sequence with missing steps. Carlaysia was pumsaed by dawn, saluting the toaster before sitting down. pumsed adj. Drunk by closing time, and still arranging the morning's movements into a martial routine. pumy stoned adj. Too drunk to distinguish a soft stone from the stair beneath it. pun-offed adj. Having drunk enough to conduct a private contest in puns, with the curtains as the only judges. puna tinamoued adj. You are drunk and moving like a highland bird that has forgotten whether breakfast is migration. Marianne was puna tinamoued, making abrupt journeys between the sofa and the kettle. punaanied adj. Describing a drinker who has spent the morning treating the body as an unexpectedly delicate subject. punaed adj. You have drunk enough to wake in a high, coarse-grassed state, requiring acclimatisation before toast. punaglandinned adj. Of a drinker: chemically complicated by morning, with a chlorinated explanation for every stiffness. Christela was punaglandinned, moving cautiously and blaming the coral reef. punaluaed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired several companions overnight and cannot establish which household is theirs. Chanee woke punaluaed, sharing the sofa with strangers and two unfamiliar dressing gowns. punanied (/pʊˈnɑːnid/) adj. A drinker who has spent the morning guarding personal dignity with unusual, unsteady seriousness. Altamae was punanied, declining breakfast and closing the bathroom door twice. punarnavaed adj. A drinker so far gone that recovery has become a flowering, spreading process rather than an event. Naisean was punarnavaed by morning, blooming slowly beneath the conservatory light. punarnavined adj. The state of being drunk and chemically inclined to persist, despite the clear evidence of daylight. punarnavosided adj. Drunk to the extent of treating every medicinal plant as a personal endorsement. punatooed adj. Drunk on the strength of preserved palm jelly, and confidently mistaking sweetness for sound judgement.