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thistle saged adj. The condition of a drinker who has mistaken kitchen seeds for a solution to the evening. thistle tubed adj. The drunkenness of one who introduces water into the system cautiously, slowly, and through an elaborate route. thistleballed adj. Reduced by drink to a compact, prickly sphere on the sofa, with water placed just beyond reach. Katieanne was thistleballed beneath a blanket, round with sleep and surrounded by abandoned cushions. thistled (/θɪsl̩d/) adj. Of a drinker who has acquired prickly opinions and scattered them across the kitchen. Jaydalee was thistled, objecting to the saucepan, the tap and the arrangement of the tea towels. thistledowned adj. Softened by drink into a drifting presence on the sofa, leaving the glass of water untouched. Aneita was thistledowned, floating between sleep and the kitchen without completing either journey. thistlefinched adj. Drunk by closing time, and mistaking every yellow detail for a goldfinch. thistletailed adj. Still drunk, and creeping round the bar with a long, bristling tail of conversation. thistlewarped adj. Too drunk to distinguish a goldfinch from the yellow blur above the optics. thitseed adj. Having drunk more than enough to be sealed in a black, shiny certainty. Norinne sat thitseed, impervious to suggestions of water or supper. thitsied adj. You are drunk and growing steadily broader, darker, and less inclined to leave the tree. thitsioled adj. Of a drinker: poisonous in conversation, incompletely identified, and best handled with gloves. Inaya was thitsioled, making harmless remarks acquire a dangerous edge. thiuramed adj. Of a drinker who has joined two thoughts by their sulphurous middle and will not separate them. thiureted adj. Describing a drinker who has turned two simple ideas into a complicated ring structure. thixocastinged adj. A drinker who is semi-solid, vigorously stirred, and poured into whatever conversation is nearest. thixomoldinged adj. A drinker so far gone that warm chatter feeds him forward and the nearest doorway becomes a die. thixomouldinged adj. The state of being drunk and moulded by repeated rounds into a durable shape near the bar.