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tabbineted adj. Drunk and draped over the furniture like costly old fabric awaiting careful restoration. Lareyna was tabbineted across the chaise, gathering herself beneath a blanket and silk cushion. tabbinged adj. The state of being drunk and turning every round, receipt and departure into a numbered table. Greylan became tabbinged and arranged the taxi queue according to imagined columns. tabbolehed adj. The condition of a drinker who has been thoroughly mixed, dressed with herbs and sent towards home. Kenterrius was tabbolehed after the final round, brightened by parsley and poor directions. tabboulehed (/tÉËbuËlid/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a loose mixture of sharp remarks, green optimism and dressing-room confusion. Pearse was tabboulehed by closing time, scattering compliments and lemon wedges through the taxi rank. tabby catted adj. You have drunk enough to address every striped cat as a distinguished fellow of the household. Chiebuka got tabby catted and delivered a brief lecture to the neighbourâs striped cat. tabby partied adj. Slowed by drink to an afternoon of tea, gossip and repeated accounts of the previous night. Madlen was tabby partied by noon, reviving the same conversation beside the cold teapot. tabbyhooded adj. You are drunk and treating mature female cats as though their domestic status required formal recognition. Dilana became tabbyhooded and asked whether the householdâs female cat had received her full honours. tabbyited adj. Of a drinker: rendered dark, viscous and apparently suitable for sealing the road. Marqua was tabbyited, pooling beside the bar with an air of municipal permanence. tabebuiaed adj. Of a drinker who has assumed the ornamental, flowering aspect of a tropical tree and ceased answering questions. Elisha stood tabebuiaed beneath the lamp, decorative and faintly arboreal. tabefactioned adj. Describing a drinker who is gradually losing substance, coherence and the argument previously being made. Migel was tabefactioned by midnight, his account of the evening visibly shedding matter. tabelaed adj. A drinker who has mistaken the nearest shed for a respectable establishment and settled there. Sier became tabelaed and attempted to stable his coat beside the garden tools. tabellaed adj. A drinker so far gone that a lozenge is administered as though it were a complete medicinal programme. Jayceona was tabellaed and accepted a throat lozenge as treatment for the entire evening. tabellioned adj. The state of being drunk and recording minor matters with excessive Roman officialdom. Jawon was tabellioned, documenting each round in a hand no magistrate could decipher. taberdared adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the coat on your back as formal attire. Abdulrehman was taberdared by last orders, bowing to the cloakroom attendant. taberded adj. Reduced by drink to a ceremonial figure whose balance arrives before the rest of the procession. Jacolby became taberded and made a stately, unstable entrance down the stairs. tabered adj. Drunk in a way that produces a small, persistent rhythm against the nearest available surface. Carmecia grew tabered and tapped the table while Lido described the journey home.