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teasteroned adj. Drunk to the extent of acquiring a botanical constitution and an inexplicable fondness for campestanes. Alaetra became teasteroned and discoursed on plant sterols beside the fruit machine. teatabled adj. Reduced by drink to a person whose entire morning takes place at the nearest small table. Margareta was teatabled, with the newspaper open and the tea untouched. teatcupped adj. Drunk by the third round, and requiring firm mechanical attachment before attempting to stand. teated (/tiːtd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of a conspicuous protuberance, and inclined to dispense advice from it. Angharad grew teated after supper and lectured the table on mammalian anatomy. teathed adj. Having drunk enough to improve neither the field nor the morning, but to leave both richly marked. teatimed adj. Still drunk, and observing the sacred afternoon interval several hours after the afternoon has ceased. teatowelled adj. Loosened by drink into a person who treats a drying cloth as acceptable morning clothing. teatoxed adj. Too drunk to trust alcohol, and therefore attempting a medicinal correction with a mug of tea. teatrayed adj. Drunk to the point where every cup requires a stable surface and formal escort. teawared adj. Sufficiently drunk to classify crockery by function, provenance, and supposed moral character. teawhisked adj. A drinker who has dissolved good sense into foam and considers the result refreshing. teaze-holed adj. Having drunk more than the furnace of reason can admit, with every further round introduced through the same aperture. Chenell was teaze-holed and demanded that each whisky be fed directly into the evening. teazed adj. Having drunk enough to revive an obsolete spelling and apply it indiscriminately to nearby persons. teazelled adj. Too drunk to leave without gathering the room's loose threads, including several that were not yours. teazered (/ˈtiːzə(ɹ)d/) adj. You have drunk enough to mistake informal naval discipline for an appropriate method of settling disagreement. Tyleek became teazered and threatened the dartboard with a disciplinary proceeding. teazinged adj. Describing a drinker who has turned every delay on the way home into an occasion for mockery. Georgett was teazinged at the taxi rank, making archaic remarks about the queue's progress.