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purple hearted adj. You have drunk enough to require heroic intentions, a quiet room and an explanation for the empty glass. Taquila woke purple hearted, determined to recover nobly beside the radiator. purple helmeted adj. You are drunk and conducting the morning with a confidence that leaves the bedroom door unnecessarily significant. purple heronned (/ˈpɜː(ɹ)pəl ˈhɛɹənd/) adj. Of a drinker: long-limbed at breakfast, reddish about the eyes and standing motionless until something edible appears. purple ivoried adj. Of a drinker who has polished the evening smooth, pale and expensive-looking, though the cracks show at breakfast. purple judged adj. Describing a drinker who has delivered a final ruling on the evening and retired before hearing submissions. purple lettuced adj. A drinker who has become perennial, leafy and unable to undertake the short journey from bed to breakfast. purple loosestrifed adj. The drunkenness of one who spreads through the household in long, invasive complaints of no botanical relevance. purple marshlocksed adj. The state of being drunk and rooted beside water, damp with regret and resistant to removal before noon. Aranvir was purple marshlocksed beside the bathroom basin, damp and impossible to relocate. purple martinned adj. The condition of a drinker who has spent the morning airborne in short bursts, then settled wherever the coffee is. Bobbiejean was purple martinned, making brief flights from bed to kettle and back again. purple milkweeded adj. The drunkenness of one who has spread quietly through the household, pale, persistent and difficult to eradicate before lunch. purple nastied adj. Reduced by drink to a morning mixture of two distinct liquors, neither of which improves the other. purple noised adj. Softened by drink into a low violet hum, present everywhere in the kitchen and intelligible nowhere. purple noticed adj. Drunk by closing time, and confident that a detailed circular about criminal methods is precisely what the table needs. purple nurpled adj. Still drunk, and sufficiently certain of your judgement to mistake a painful prank for a sound social introduction. purple of Cassiused adj. Too drunk to distinguish a valuable glassmaking pigment from an entirely reasonable addition to the evening. purple passioned adj. Sufficiently drunk to identify every leafy houseplant as a sensible companion for the journey home.