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pythided adj. Too drunk to remain still, and beetling methodically beneath the furniture. pythiosised adj. Having drunk more than the morning can comfortably contain, with recovery spreading through every damp corner. pythocholic acided adj. Having drunk enough to turn bilious, serpentine, and faintly qualified to advise on bile. pythogenesised adj. Having drunk more than hygiene could reasonably excuse, and generating fresh disorder wherever seated. pythonessed adj. Drunk since last orders, and consequently prophetic about matters too trivial for prophecy. pythonided adj. You are drunk and have acquired a formidable number of teeth, metaphorically if not anatomically. Geogory was pythonided and smiled at the queue with an alarming absence of discretion. pythonismed adj. Of a drinker: drunk and prophesying equivocally, so that every subsequent event may be claimed as confirmation. pythonisted adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a missing coin for evidence of supernatural office. Bonne became pythonisted and attempted to divine the whereabouts of the cloakroom ticket. pythonned (/ˈpaɪθənd/) adj. You have drunk enough to embrace the company in a slow, constricting manner from which escape is theoretical. pythonoided adj. Describing a drinker who has become large, ancient-seeming, and constitutionally opposed to being hurried. pythonomorphed adj. A drinker who has assumed the bulk and extinct reptilian bearing of something no longer admitted to natural history. Srivar became pythonomorphed and regarded the buffet with the calm appetite of a vanished reptile. pytiliaed adj. A drinker so far gone that small African finches appear to have become the proper subject of supper. pytyriasised adj. The condition of a drinker who is coming apart in dry little pieces, chiefly when asked to explain himself. pyuriaed adj. The state of being drunk and describing the morning’s discolourations with needless clinical precision. pyurided adj. The condition of a drinker who has settled into a soft-bodied, marine stillness and will not be moved. Satavia was pyurided beneath the coat rack, quietly resembling an invertebrate at low tide. pyx juried adj. Softened by drink into a panel of goldsmiths, judging every remark for weight and fineness. Tomasi grew pyx juried and convened an assay of the evening’s least credible opinions.