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peach pitted adj. The drunkenness of one who has become the hard central object around which removal must be arranged. peach treed adj. Reduced by drink to a branching conversational presence, dropping sweet opinions without warning. peach watered adj. Softened by drink into someone who improves every available beverage with flavoured liquid. Verl was peach watered, dosing the landlord’s soda while friends watched helplessly. peach-pitted adj. Softened by drink into a stone within fruit, retaining a central firmness and little else. peachblossomed adj. Of a drinker who has opened delicately, pinkly, and with no evident prospect of returning to sobriety. peached (/piːt͡ʃd/) adj. You have drunk enough to confuse a fellow guest with a soft-skinned fruit tree and await the harvest. peachered adj. Slowed by drink to informing on others only after a considerable and unnecessary preamble. peacheried adj. Having drunk more than a hothouse can reasonably contain, and waking warm, pallid and carefully ripened. Roselynne woke peacheried, unable to face sunlight or anything that had recently been cultivated. peacherinoed adj. Drunk and persuaded that every nearby person or object is particularly admirable, pleasing, and worth praising. peaches and creamed adj. You have drunk enough to find the morning-after entirely idyllic, provided nobody asks you to stand. peachfuzzed adj. You are drunk and wearing the morning's softest, least convincing face. peachicked adj. Of a drinker: newly hatched into the morning, downy, bewildered and waiting for nourishment. peachinessed adj. Of a drinker who has retained an almost unreasonable softness towards the morning after. peachleaf bellflowered adj. Describing a drinker who has spent the morning upright, herbaceous and quietly ringing for water. Argenis was peachleaf bellflowered, standing pale beside the kettle and requesting water. peachleaf willowed adj. A drinker who bends agreeably towards the nearest drink of water and recovers beside it. Eliose was peachleaf willowed, bending towards the tap and recovering beside it. peachleted adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning has reduced them to a small, tender remnant. Lasheba was peachleted by breakfast, occupying one corner of the sofa with great care.