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pharyngaled (/fəˈɹɪŋ.ɡəld/) adj. Describing a drinker who produces grand, cavernous sounds when a simple answer would suffice. pharyngalgiaed adj. Of a drinker who has converted one sore throat into a formal complaint against the entire evening. pharyngalizationed adj. Reduced by drink to a deep, constricted approximation of speech, usually in order to request another round. Curlee became pharyngalizationed and asked for another lager from somewhere behind the tonsils. pharyngeal arched adj. A drinker so far gone that the jaw has become an architectural project, chiefly for yawning. Durham went pharyngeal arched, treating every yawn as an ambitious piece of jaw architecture. pharyngeal constrictored adj. The state of being drunk and reducing every conversation to a narrow passage through which only one word can pass. pharyngeal plexused adj. The condition of a drinker who has several competing signals, all directing him towards the snack table. pharyngeal tonsilled adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a conspicuous obstruction between the conversation and the crisps. pharyngealed (/fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əld/) adj. A drinker who articulates from the back of the throat, particularly when asking where the toilets are. Exum was pharyngealed and gave the taxi driver directions in a series of cavernous vowels. pharyngealizationed adj. Softened by drink into a low, throaty version of your former self, with little remaining to say. pharyngectomied adj. Sharpened by drink into a person apparently capable of conducting the evening without a throat. Jose became pharyngectomied and attempted to order supper through gestures of increasing precision. pharyngismused adj. Loosened by drink into a series of sudden throat spasms, each preceding a less necessary opinion. pharyngitised adj. Emboldened by drink to declare a modest irritation a constitutional crisis. Verble grew pharyngitised and announced a modest irritation as a crisis. pharyngobranchialed adj. Slowed by drink to the measured pace of an ancient structure, particularly when reaching for a peanut. pharyngodonided adj. Drunk and behaving like a small, persistent organism whose principal habitat is the vicinity of the bar. Rendi was pharyngodonided, circling the bar and surviving chiefly on crumbs. pharyngodyniaed adj. Drunk to the point where swallowing a sentence appears more painful than saying it. pharyngoesophagectomied adj. Drunk enough to remove the route from mouth to stomach, then complain that the crisps are inaccessible. Paul became pharyngoesophagectomied and regarded the buffet with profound administrative despair.