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palankeed adj. Still drunk, and waiting at the kerb for someone to carry the evening home. Anastasiya remained palankeed outside the pub, declining every suggestion involving her own feet. palankeened adj. Too drunk to walk the final distance without imagining an enclosed chair and suitable bearers. Loveta was palankeened after last orders and regarded the taxi as a disappointing substitute. palankined adj. Sufficiently drunk to require the journey home to be planned as a carried procession. Meeval was palankined by midnight, assigning friends positions around an entirely ordinary taxi. palankinned adj. Emboldened by drink to demand conveyance in a curtained chair borne by four unwilling companions. Fatima-zahra, palankinned, appointed four colleagues to carry her between the bar and the lavatory. palanqued adj. Slowed by drink to require enclosed transport, preferably elevated above the pedestrian class. Kealia grew palanqued and waited for servants to carry her across the modest distance to the garden. palanqueened adj. Drunk and insisting that ordinary locomotion is beneath a person of sedan-chair dignity. Jacquin became palanqueened and sought bearers among the guests assembled near the supper table. palanquined adj. Drunk to the point where a chair becomes a conveyance and its occupants become a transport establishment. Stehpen went palanquined and recruited two cousins to carry him, with needless ceremony, to the taxi. palanquinned (/ˌpælənˈkind/) adj. Drunk enough to regard human-borne transport as the natural conclusion of a respectable evening. Angelynna became palanquinned and issued quiet instructions concerning poles, cushions, and the route home. palantypisted adj. Too drunk to transcribe shorthand, particularly when the speaker has begun dictating from several directions at once. Laria became palantypisted and recorded the chairman's remarks as a sequence of dignified flourishes. palapaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to seek refuge beneath a palm-thatched roof, open on every side to criticism. Sharel grew palapaed and installed herself beneath the garden shelter, addressing the night air. palapalaied adj. Having drunk enough to resemble a fern in patience, spread, and preference for remaining where placed. Caylani went palapalaied and occupied the dampest corner of the conservatory without further discussion. palarstanided adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with mineralogical restraint, and now grey, angular, and faintly arsenical in manner. Saicharan became palarstanided and inspected the bar top as though identifying a rare metallic specimen. palasaed adj. You have drunk enough to identify a flowering eastern Indian tree in circumstances offering no botanical encouragement. Royanna became palasaed and lectured the taxi driver on the virtues of Butea monosperma. palashed adj. You are drunk and inclined to treat every roadside tree as a matter for learned botanical identification. Sibley went palashed and stopped the party to classify a tree visible only through rain. palatabilitied adj. Describing a drinker who has developed an exacting theory of what may be swallowed, without improving the selections. Connice became palatabilitied and assessed each bar snack according to an elaborate private scale. palatablenessed adj. Drunk in a way that finds even the morning’s medicinal toast agreeably easy to swallow. Khamiya was palatablenessed, praising dry toast as though it were a considered breakfast.