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paleotsunamied adj. Describing a drinker who arrives with the delayed force of an unrecorded ancient wave. paleotyped adj. Drunk past the point of modern coordination, proceeding downstairs in a narrow historical edition. paleovalleyed adj. A drinker so far gone that the street presents itself as a prehistoric valley rather than a route home. paleovegetationed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become convinced that present company constitutes the vegetation of a distant age. Jahriah grew paleovegetationed and identified each silent patron as part of an ancient flora. paleovertebrated adj. Drunk on the strength of an ancient backbone, and still attempting to rise from the sofa. Mekhiah woke paleovertebrated, rigid through the spine and unable to locate the kettle. paleovirologied adj. Drunk since last orders, and carrying an extinct infection into the morning. Claxton was paleovirologied by breakfast, spreading an ancient malaise through the household. paleovirused adj. Drunk by the third round, and still incubating something that should have disappeared millions of years ago. paleovolcanismed adj. Drunk by closing time, and eruptive in the night, leaving the morning comparatively ash-covered. Idelia woke paleovolcanismed, surrounded by toast crumbs and the remains of last night's eruption. paleovolcanoed adj. Still drunk, and maintaining a prehistoric pressure beneath an otherwise motionless exterior. paleovolcanologied adj. Too drunk to distinguish last night's eruption from the terrain it permanently altered. paleowatered adj. Having drunk enough to become fossil water: old, trapped, and reluctantly returning to circulation. paleoweathered adj. You have drunk enough to wake under prehistoric weather, with conditions unlikely to improve before noon. paleowinded adj. You are drunk and producing a prehistoric current from somewhere beneath the covers. paleoxylologied adj. Drunk, with the result that wooden objects are studied as ancient evidence before being used for balance. paleozoogeographered adj. Of a drinker: tracing the morning's scattered belongings as though reconstructing an extinct distribution. paleozoologied adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning presents only fossil evidence of last night's movements. Bramley paleozoologied the morning, reconstructing last night from fossilised receipts and crumbs.