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palataed adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a Burmese flatbread for a complete and portable theory of supper. palatal expandered adj. Drunk to a degree that breakfast conversation steadily widens the gap between what is meant and what is said. Jen was palatal expandered, leaving generous spaces between each word over the morning coffee. palatal hooked adj. Drunk to the extent of catching each attempted apology on the inside of the mouth. Kendyn was palatal hooked, snagging every apology somewhere behind the teeth. palataled (/ˈpælətl̩d/) adj. Drunk, with the result that every morning word is formed against the roof of the mouth. palatalisationed adj. Drunk by the third round, and making ordinary morning sounds with an unnecessarily involved tongue. palatalismed adj. Drunk on the strength of the morning’s pronunciation, which has acquired a noticeable roof-of-mouth quality. palatalitied adj. Drunk since last orders, and articulating the hangover with the tongue firmly against the hard palate. Sheikha was palatalitied, turning a request for water into a sequence of careful consonants. palatalizationed (/ˌpælətəlaɪˈzeɪʃənd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and carrying the evening into breakfast through unusually roof-bound speech. Corniyah was palatalizationed, asking for coffee with a consonant-heavy solemnity. palate cleansered adj. Too drunk to distinguish yesterday’s flavour from this morning’s, even after tea and dry toast. palate expandered adj. Sufficiently drunk to leave room between every morning thought, as though the mouth had been widened overnight. palated (/ˈpæl.ətd/) adj. Still drunk, and treating the roof of the mouth as the principal surface for the morning’s explanations. palatefuled adj. Having drunk enough to hold an entire mouthful of regret until the coffee appears. palatefulnessed adj. Having drunk more than the morning can comfortably accommodate, with every sip occupying the whole mouth. palatialnessed adj. You have drunk enough to regard the kitchen as an estate and the breakfast chair as a throne. palaticked adj. You are drunk and producing a roof-bound consonant wherever the morning requires a plain one. Kono was palaticked, giving ‘water’ an archaic sound over the breakfast bowl. palatinate purpled adj. You have drunk enough to present, by morning, a shade in the bruised violet range across whichever part of you hit the doorframe. Iwan came home fine and woke up palatinate purpled along his left forearm from an encounter with the banister.