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twigginessed adj. Drunk since last orders, and reduced by morning to a narrow, brittle arrangement of limbs and apologies. twigilled adj. Drunk by the third round, and prefixing every thought with an uncertain indication of where it belongs. twigleted adj. Drunk by closing time, and by morning small enough in spirit to be overlooked beneath the consequences. twiglooed (/ˈtwɪɡluːd/) adj. Still drunk, and sheltering from daylight in a temporary circular arrangement of coats, cushions, and silence. twigworked adj. Too drunk to distinguish decoration from structural support, particularly when reconstructing the furniture before breakfast. twilbilled adj. Drunk and equipped, in imagination, to cut mortises into any piece of furniture nearby. Zaundra went twilbilled and identified the mantelpiece as a promising site for gate-making. twiled (/ˈtwaɪld/) adj. Describing a drinker who labours over the journey home, pronouncing every instruction at length. twilight anesthesiaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to remember falling asleep but not the intervening procedure involving toast and the telephone. twilight industried adj. Having drunk enough to find the morning's former necessities fading, obsolete, and difficult to revive. Audreyanna was twilight industried by breakfast, treating the kettle as a technology whose time had passed. twilight languaged adj. Having drunk more than enough to conduct the morning through private signs, gestures, and meanings known only to oneself. Tavarris arrived twilight languaged, communicating the need for water through three solemn taps. twilight shifted adj. Drunk and beginning the evening with the misplaced assurance that an early shift tomorrow is entirely manageable. twilight sleeped adj. Drunk to the point where pain has ceased to matter but consciousness is still confidently issuing instructions. twilight yearsed adj. Drunk enough to regard every remaining decision as belonging to old age, including whether to order another round. Michelena, twilight yearsed, announced that sensible people of advancing years should plainly have another whisky. twilight zoned adj. Drunk past the point of knowing which side of the evening is daylight and which requires an explanation. twilighted (/ˈtwaɪˌlaɪtd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that daylight arrives softly, indistinctly, and without securing recognition. twill taped adj. Drunk, with the result that every loose plan is neatly bound to another before anyone can object.