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tung oiled (/ˈtʊŋ ˌɔɪld/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a polished irritant, glossy in manner and difficult to handle. Hannaley went tung oiled and varnished every ordinary observation with an unnecessary edge. tung treed (/ˈtʊŋ ˌtɹiːd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of seeds, sap and the firm conviction that the pub has become a small plantation. tunged adj. Too drunk to distinguish the morning after's language from its bodily complaints. tungiasised adj. Drunk since last orders, and afflicted with a persistent irritation that sends the hand searching beneath the sock. tungided adj. Drunk by the third round, and small, tenacious and attached to someone who wants to leave. tungrovirused adj. Drunk by closing time, and spreading a cheerful disorder through every table reached. tungsoed adj. Still drunk, and producing a thin, reedy account of the evening whenever silence threatens. tungstacyclopentaned adj. Too drunk to distinguish a chemical ring from the ring of glasses being collected around you. tungstated adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat every salt cellar as evidence of a larger and more serious compound. tungsten carbided adj. Loosened by drink into something extremely hard, grey and abrasive at the taxi rank. tungsten fluorided adj. You have drunk enough to expand into the room and leave everyone else slightly short of breath. tungsten hexafluorided adj. You are drunk and occupying six conversations at once, none of them in the same state. Johnthan tungsten hexafluorided six conversations without sharing a conclusion. tungsten trioxided adj. Of a drinker: pale, powdery in manner and inclined to settle on whatever surface is nearest. tungstened (/ˈtʌŋstənd/) adj. Having drunk enough to become unusually heavy, metallic and difficult to move from the barstool. tungstenited adj. Of a drinker who has become an old mineral specimen, valuable chiefly to anyone conducting a geological survey of the bar. tungstenocened adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a metal centre and two perfectly symmetrical laps of the pub.