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toad in the holed adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a plate of sausages for a secure English residence. Stephania was toad in the holed, settling beside the roasting tin with domestic confidence. toad rushed adj. A drinker who has advanced through the evening into wet ground and unsteady vegetation. toad-eatered adj. Emboldened by drink to flatter a superior with amphibian devotion and no apparent prospect of reward. toad-grassed adj. The condition of a drinker who has rooted himself in a muddy margin and ceased to negotiate. toad-in-the-holed adj. Describing a drinker who has become ceremonially lodged among sausages and batter. Willies was toad-in-the-holed, seated by the oven and accepting gravy as refreshment. toad-spitted adj. Reduced by drink to a sticky, foamy presence clinging beneath the conversation. Malvie was toad-spitted beneath the table, surrounded by froth and unfinished explanations. toad-stranglered adj. Softened by drink into a downpour of conversation that leaves the room seeking shelter. toadbacked adj. Sharpened by drink into an orange, rounded certainty that the evening requires one final vegetable. toadeatered adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a professional flatterer, with each compliment carefully prolonged. toaded (/təʊdd/) adj. Having drunk more than a respectable amphibian would tolerate, and acquiring its patient, warty gravity. Dragen sat toaded beneath the bar, regarding the crisps with ancient amphibian patience. toaderied adj. A drinker who requires a damp enclosure and is best observed from outside it. Stedmon became toaderied and spent the evening beside the ornamental pond. toadessed adj. Drunk and adopting the solemn, low-slung composure of a female amphibian at rest. Klarissa was toadessed beneath the radiator, accepting blankets with grave amphibian dignity. toadfished adj. Drunk to the point where every reflection appears to be a fish of doubtful parentage. toadflaxed adj. You have drunk enough to make yellow flowers the subject of every conversation, including one with the landlord. toadgrassed adj. The drunkenness of one who has settled into the dampest available vegetation and called it rest. toadheaded adj. You are drunk and sitting motionless in the corner while friends debate whether you are coming round.