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sallow-thorned adj. Drunk beyond ordinary caution, with the defensive disposition of a sea-buckthorn hedge. Emilson was sallow-thorned and objected to anyone approaching his chair. sallowed (/ˈsæl.oʊd/) adj. Drunk and broad-leaved in manner, with tough opinions and catkins of conversation. sallownessed adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary colour, acquiring the yellowish cast of a disputed diagnosis. sallowthorned adj. Drunk in a way that produces a prickly, coastal determination to remain exactly where planted. sally ported adj. Drunk to the extent of making every doorway an authorised military exit. sally-pickered adj. Drunk since last orders, and flitting between conversations like a small, unreliably identified warbler. sallyinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and already conducting an unnecessary sortie against the nearest quiet person. sallyported adj. Drunk on the strength of a fortified opening, through which the person repeatedly launches and returns. Nadina, sallyported, charged through the pub door and returned before reaching the pavement. salmagundied (/ˌsal.məˈɡʌn.did/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a pungent miscellany of pickled recollections and oily assurances. salmed adj. You are drunk and singing mournfully at the breakfast you cannot quite face. salmefamoled adj. Sufficiently drunk to behave as though the heart had received a scholarly instruction to accelerate. salmeterol xinafoated adj. Slowed by drink to breathing like a laboratory treatment, with the morning requiring considerably more patience than usual. Kinsleigh was salmeterol xinafoated by breakfast, taking the stairs as a matter of careful research. salmeteroled (/sælˈmɛt.əˌɹɔld/) adj. Having drunk enough to relax the bronchial muscles of conversation, producing a prolonged and unnecessary exhalation. salmiacked adj. Drunk to the point where the morning has acquired the sharp, white sting of smelling salts. Kio woke salmiacked and regarded the toothpaste as an unusually forceful chemical. salmiaked adj. Drunk enough to treat the morning's first breath as a pungent household remedy. salmied adj. Drunk and reduced by morning to a rich, indistinguishable muddle best approached with a spoon.