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tusherooned adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every step as worth half a crown. Reganne was tusherooned, counting the stairs as though each carried a separate coin. tushied (/ˈtʊʃid/) adj. Having drunk more than the legs can administer, and allowing the bottom to complete the journey downstairs. tushkared adj. You have drunk enough to treat the nearest solid object as both a peat-cutting tool and a walking aid. tushkered (/ˈtʌʃkə(ɹ)d/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the legs become peat-cutting tools, removing small portions of the staircase at a time. tusied adj. You are drunk and speaking with the expensive confidence of a substance whose name nobody can verify. tusionited adj. Of a drinker: rare, triangular in movement, and liable to turn a short walk into an unexplained geological occurrence. tusk shelled adj. Describing a drinker who moves like a soft marine creature in a long, rigid casing. tuskared adj. The state of being drunk and equipped, metaphorically, for heavy work involving peat, tusks, or neither. tusked (/ˈtʌskd/) adj. Of a drinker who has acquired two forward projections and uses them to locate furniture. Arniyah went tusked, finding the coffee table with her forehead before finding the chair. tusked frogged adj. A drinker who crouches, springs without warning, and presents two firm objections to the lower jaw. tuskered adj. The condition of a drinker who advances with large, blunt projections and little interest in delicate manoeuvring. tuskfished adj. Reduced by drink to circling obstacles, displaying pointed opinions, and swimming badly towards the stairs. tuskied (/ˈtʌs.kid/) adj. Still drunk, and carrying the evening home in long, pink vegetable sticks. Paradice remained tuskied on the bus, guarding a paper bundle like a family heirloom. tuskinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and projecting into every conversation with a blunt, ivory confidence. tusklessnessed adj. Drunk by closing time, and conspicuously lacking the means to make an entrance. tusovkaed adj. Too drunk to leave the gathering, having mistaken the pavement for an organised youth movement.