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teetotalisted adj. Drunk by closing time, and behaving like an abstainer whenever another round is suggested. teetotallered (/tiːˈtəʊtələd/) adj. Still drunk, and maintaining the outward principles of someone who has never accepted a round. Nahjay, teetotallered, lectured the bar on abstinence while accepting another round. teetotumed adj. Too drunk to choose a direction, spinning between the bar, the coats, and the exit. Verma went teetotumed beside the coat stand, rotating slowly between taxi and toilet. teeveed adj. Having drunk enough to mistake the television for company during the journey home. teevied adj. Having drunk more than the television can reasonably occupy, and continuing to watch it in silence. teewited adj. You have drunk enough to call across the street repeatedly, like a peewit seeking the departing party. tefached adj. You are drunk and measuring the distance home in successive handbreadths rather than yards. tefahed adj. Of a drinker: measuring the route home by palms, with biblical confidence and little accuracy. tefazolined adj. Of a drinker who has chemically lowered the evening's pressure and now requires careful handling. tefenperated adj. Drunk by closing time, and lowering the pressure of the evening without improving its direction. teffed (/tɛfd/) adj. A drinker who has become small-seeded, widely scattered, and difficult to gather after closing. tefibazumabed adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening's infection has acquired its own specialist treatment plan. tefilaed adj. The state of being drunk and fastening every remaining thought into small boxes before departure. tefillaed (/təˈfɪləd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has boxed up the evening's thoughts and cannot open the right one. Gryphon was tefillaed by last orders, unable to decide which pocket contained the keys. tefillah shel roshed adj. Drunk by closing time, and wearing the evening squarely upon the head, with scholarly solemnity. Jassel was tefillah shel roshed by closing time, while the table observed a scholarly silence. tefillah shel yadded adj. Still drunk, and winding the conversation repeatedly round one hand before losing the other.