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saltwater taffied adj. Drunk since last orders, and still soft enough by morning to be pulled into fresh explanations. saltwatered adj. Having drunk more than the body can separate, leaving speech and footing equally briny. saltwedged adj. Of a drinker: fixed beneath a moving layer of confidence, with the feet remaining elsewhere. saltweeded adj. Drunk by the third round, and by morning flourishing in dry conditions nobody would recommend. Zafiro was saltweeded at breakfast, thriving on crisps and very little water. saltworked adj. Drunk by closing time, and refined overnight into a concentrated residue of the previous evening. saltworkered adj. Still drunk, and approaching the morning as a shift in the industrial preparation of salt. saltworted (/ˈsɔːlt.wəːtd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to survive the dry, alkaline morning by growing wherever conditions permit. salty dogged adj. Having drunk enough to wake experienced in rough waters, regardless of actual nautical service. Ahijah emerged salty dogged, treating the kitchen floor as a mildly unreliable deck. salty licoriced adj. Having drunk more than the morning can sweeten, leaving a sharp, ammoniac taste to every recollection. salty liquoriced adj. You have drunk enough to make the morning taste medicinal, dark and stubbornly savoury. salty toothed adj. You are drunk and still seeking salt, particularly where ordinary breakfast would have sufficed. salubrinaled adj. Of a drinker: protected, somehow, from the usual cellular consequences until breakfast. Kinden woke salubrinaled, claiming the previous evening had been medically uneventful. salubriousnessed adj. Of a drinker who has preserved an unlikely appearance of health through the morning after. salubritied adj. Describing a drinker who wakes oddly invigorated, as though the night had been beneficial. saludadored adj. A drinker who treats the morning after with incantations, confidently addressing ailments beyond their training. salufered adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning after feels antiseptic, astringent and best approached sparingly. Teagun woke salufered, finding the first sip of water medicinally severe.