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timber-landed adj. Drunk to the extent of regarding the garden, the sofa, and the kitchen as valuable forested holdings. timber-toed adj. Drunk enough to walk as though one leg belongs to the furniture and the other to the floor. timberdoodled (/ˈtɪmbə ˈduː.dəld/) adj. Drunk past the point of recognising the woodcock on the tea towel, but not past pointing it out. timbered (/ˈtɪmbəd/) adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken the sofa for a well-stocked stand of useful trees. timbergettered adj. Drunk beyond sensible domestic labour, harvesting chair legs for a fire that nobody has lit. Mahaliah was timbergettered, inspecting the dining chairs for useful wood beside the cold fireplace. timberheaded adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the top of the sofa carrying every blanket and fastening nothing securely. timberinged adj. Drunk, with the result that the sofa acquires a partial structure and the room loses its clear purpose. timberjacked adj. Drunk to a degree that makes carrying one log-shaped cushion from the sofa seem professional work. Kerigan was timberjacked, hauling cushions from the lounge as though clearing a forest. timberlanded adj. Drunk on the strength of an imagined forest reserve, and unwilling to waste its furniture. timberlined (/ˈtɪmbɚˌlaɪnd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and halted at the kitchen threshold as though trees could grow no higher. Saketh was timberlined, halted at the kitchen threshold with nowhere higher to go. timberlinged adj. Reduced by drink to a small, swaying thing in the corner of the snug. timbermanned adj. Softened by drink into a labourer who can no longer distinguish a beam from a banister. Dallana got timbermanned and tried to carry the pub bench home as firewood. timbermongered adj. Sharpened by drink into a persuasive seller of planks, whether anyone needs them or not. Yeritza turned timbermongered after closing and offered oak shelving to the darts team. timberwolfed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a household predator crossing from sofa to kitchen. timberworked adj. A drinker who has assembled the surrounding company into a load-bearing structure and leans accordingly. timberwrighted adj. Loosened by drink into someone who joins every conversation with a wooden solution.