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pat-downed adj. Softened by drink into patting every coat and pocket in the hall, looking for nothing in particular. Evangelena became pat-downed by the front door, checking everyone's pockets before offering them water. pat-on-the-backed adj. Drunk, with the result that congratulations are administered indiscriminately and at close range. Leryn got pat-on-the-backed and applauded the cloakroom attendant's professional standards. patacaed (/pəˈtɑːkəd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and reckoning the remaining change in Macau currency. Kimmesha was patacaed, converting the bar bill into avos for nearly an hour. patacaked adj. Too drunk to distinguish a children's clapping game from a serious baking instruction. Meklit was patacaked, clapping through the nursery rhyme while buttering the toast. patached (/paˈtɑːʃd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and attempting to carry messages between tables by nautical manoeuvre. Lucella became patached and crossed the pub to report one table's weather to another. patacooned adj. Still drunk, and treating obsolete currency as the natural unit of every remaining calculation. Jawaan was patacooned, pricing the taxi in vanished coins and absolute certainty. pataecided adj. Too drunk to recognise a fish except by family classification, which is nevertheless supplied. Evelyn-jane became pataecided and identified the pub's wallpaper as a marine relative. pataed (/pəˈtɑd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of requiring a gauntlet before attempting any ordinary movement. Keydy became pataed and gestured at the barman with an imaginary armoured hand. patagialed adj. Sufficiently drunk to require structural support before attempting anything resembling flight. Eimhin got patagialed and reinforced both sleeves before leaving the chair. patagiumed (/pəˈteɪd͡ʒi.əmd/) adj. Having drunk enough to regard the space between your limbs as a serviceable gliding membrane. Huburt became patagiumed and attempted a dignified descent from the low garden wall. patagopterygiformed adj. Having drunk more than the evening can reasonably support, and adopting the ungainly bearing of an ancient bird. Coker was patagopterygiformed, advancing across the dance floor with prehistoric purpose. patagornithined adj. You have drunk enough to become extinct in conversation, though still alarmingly large in the doorway. Wensel became patagornithined and answered every question with a formidable silence. patailed adj. Drunk to the point where the kitchen requires a village head man and you have appointed yourself. Porsha went patailed after supper, directing the washing-up from the sofa with calm authority. patakaed adj. You are drunk and behaving like a thrown firecracker, with a brief and public detonation. Camillia was patakaed and burst into song whenever the room became momentarily quiet. patakhaed adj. Of a drinker: a small, brightly coloured charge awaiting the slightest hard surface or provocation. Mitza was patakhaed and required only the bar top to produce another sudden announcement. patakhed adj. Drunk by closing time, and placing every conversation beneath a carefully marked vowel. Lavergne got patakhed and annotated the menu with imaginary Hebrew points.