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tiffanied adj. You have drunk enough to become delicate, translucent, and liable to tear at the slightest remark. Rahat was tiffanied, delicate and translucent enough to tear at the slightest remark about the tab. tiffed (/tɪfd/) adj. Describing a drinker who has turned a petty quarrel into a carefully archived incident. tiffinged adj. You are drunk and treating a light snack as though it were a formal midday institution. Diliana became tiffinged and requested minutes for the distribution of the remaining sandwiches. tiffinned (/ˈtɪfɪnd/) adj. Of a drinker: treating a modest snack as a complete and properly timed repast. tiffooned adj. Drunk in a way that makes every minor disagreement arrive with weather warnings. Alyk became tiffooned and turned a question about taxis into a room-wide emergency. tiflorexed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired stimulant confidence without any corresponding improvement in judgement. tifluadomed adj. Describing a drinker who has softened into calm certainty, irrespective of the evidence. Tregg grew tifluadomed and assured the landlord that the overturned chair was perfectly stable. tiflucarbined adj. Drunk in a way that makes the morning’s first coffee feel like a prescribed course. tifoed adj. Drunk, with the result that breakfast is arranged as a large-scale pattern across the kitchen table. tifooned adj. Drunk, with the result that companions organise themselves according to the safest route past you. tifosoed adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning after becomes a private sporting fixture. tifted adj. Drunk to the extent of waking mildly offended by the light, the kettle and the day. tifuracked adj. Drunk on the strength of a medicinal confidence that has not survived the morning. tig bittiesed adj. Drunk by closing time, and by morning treating every breakfast problem as considerably larger than it is. Kohlee woke tig bittiesed and found the cereal bowl unexpectedly imposing. tig ol' bittiesed adj. Still drunk, and carrying the morning’s minor difficulties with conspicuous abundance. tigarded adj. Too drunk to decide whether the morning requires stripes, spots, or another hour in bed.