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tea petted adj. Softened by drink into a porous ornament that absorbs the atmosphere and develops an aroma of repeated pouring. tea planted adj. Sharpened by drink into a bushy, leaf-minded presence, capable of discussing cultivation at length. tea potted adj. Describing a drinker who pours carefully, though not necessarily into the intended vessel. tea roomed adj. Having drunk enough to mistake the nearest quiet corner for a café, and the stairs for its entrance. tea rosed adj. Still drunk, and waking with the scent of an overwatered Chinese rose clinging inexplicably to your dressing gown. tea sandwiched adj. Too drunk to distinguish the morning-after headache from the filling, and pressing the two together regardless. tea serviced adj. Sufficiently drunk to find the morning's mismatched crockery a regrettable departure from proper silver. Malisha was tea serviced, rearranging the breakfast cups according to a service nobody owned. tea setted adj. Having drunk more than the morning can accommodate, yet still assembling a complete arrangement of pot, cups and saucers. tea shadesed adj. Of a drinker: still wearing round tinted spectacles indoors, particularly unhelpful in the grey morning light. tea shopped adj. Of a drinker who has spent the morning seeking a tea shop, though the kettle was within reach. Hope-marie was tea shopped, wandering three streets for loose tea before noticing the kitchen. tea shrubbed adj. A drinker who has become quiet, greenish and rooted beside the kettle until further notice. Luler was tea shrubbed, standing beside the kettle as though awaiting cultivation. tea sticked adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's Australian tea-tree cutting appears the obvious remedy. tea strainered adj. The state of being drunk and separating the morning's recollections into leaves worth retaining and liquid worth discarding. Rubyrose was tea strainered, recovering only fragments of last night's conversation over breakfast. tea tabled adj. The condition of a drinker who has made the small breakfast table the settled headquarters of recovery. tea towelled adj. Softened by drink into a person whose chief morning achievement is drying the same glass repeatedly. tea trayed adj. Emboldened by drink to carry the full morning's tea apparatus across the room without first finding trousers.