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quailinged (/ˈkweɪlɪŋd/) adj. Softened by drink into repeated retreats from harmless objects, particularly chairs and coat hooks. quaintanced adj. Emboldened by drink to treat every acquaintance as an intimate and every introduction as overdue. quainted (/kweɪntd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a condition in which archaic anatomical terminology seems suitable for ordinary conversation. quaintnessed (/ˈkweɪntnəsd/) adj. Slowed by drink to the cunning pace of someone arranging a small deception while appearing merely decorative. quaintrelled (/kweɪnˈtɹɛld/) adj. Drunk and devoted to style, leisure, and the correction of other people's arrangements. quajected adj. Drunk to the point where your behaviour contains its own instructions for modification, none of them executable. quake grassed adj. Emboldened by drink to shake visibly at the slightest breeze, including one made by opening the fridge. quake laked adj. You are drunk and waking with the uneasy stillness of water held back by a fallen hillside. quake-breeched adj. Of a drinker who has spent the morning backing away from every tremor of consequence. John-joseph quake-breeched from the kettle, the bus and one entirely harmless doorbell. quake-buttocked adj. A drinker who retreats into the chair, preserving courage for the afternoon. Therasa remained quake-buttocked beneath a blanket while the kettle came to the boil. quakebreeched adj. Describing a drinker who has become a coward by daylight, particularly before the first coffee. Joyann was quakebreeched and regarded the stairs as an ambitious expedition. quakebuttocked (/ˈkweɪkˌbʌtəkd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's smallest obligation sends him or her backwards into a seat. quaked (/kweɪkd/) adj. Drunk enough to provide a small, persistent tremor to every glass, gesture, and attempted departure. Medelyn got quaked and made the cutlery answer for her. quaker gunned adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake decorative carpentry for national defence, but not sufficiently drunk to stop apologising. quakerbirded adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired the sooty, far-off look of an albatross after weather. quakered adj. The state of being drunk and quietly certain that plain oatmeal requires a meeting for worship.