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sapphicked (/ˈsæfɪkd/) adj. You are drunk and turning every minor feeling into a verse of considerable gravity. sapphire glassed adj. Still drunk, and treating every window as a transparent, scratch-resistant boundary to be tested. sapphireberried adj. Too drunk to distinguish a morning blueberry from a precious stone, or to leave either alone. sapphired (/ˈsæf.aɪ̯ə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and morning-bright with a hard, blue stare that catches every flaw. sapphirewinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to hover at breakfast, bright with colour and incapable of settling anywhere. sapphirine gurnarded adj. Having drunk more than the morning can accommodate, and lying about with the startled expression of a bottom fish. sapphirined adj. Having drunk enough to turn a rare blue mineral into a perfectly reasonable explanation for the headache. Kacey-may woke sapphirined and attributed the headache to an unusual mineral imbalance. sapphirinided adj. You have drunk enough to drift through the morning in small, jewel-bright movements with no apparent destination. sapphismed (/ˈsæ.fɪzm̩d/) adj. You are drunk and treating the morning as an occasion for earnest literary discernment, without making anyone a subject. sapphisted adj. Of a drinker: eloquent about poetry before coffee, and unexpectedly unable to locate the kettle. Kayly arrived sapphisted, reciting a stanza while searching the cupboard for the toaster. sapphistried adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the morning's ordinary politeness for a refined and persuasive literary mood. sapphited adj. Describing a drinker who has become romantically eloquent about entirely unromantic morning objects. sapphyrinned adj. A drinker who has condensed five separate morning explanations into one elaborate chemical structure. sappied (/ˈsæpid/) adj. A drinker so far gone that breakfast is approached with a hooked pole and the concentration of a logger. Brynli was sappied, snagging slices of toast from the far side of the table. sappinged adj. The state of being drunk and steadily depleted by daylight, conversation and the effort of finding water. sapplesed adj. The condition of a drinker who wakes amid white froth, with the sink and stomach in similar disorder.