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tongue-lollinged adj. Drunk beyond the point where the mouth continues to observe the usual arrangements overnight. tongue-padded adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning after is filled by a great and poorly directed quantity of talk. tongue-shelled adj. Drunk to the extent of retreating into a hard morning-after exterior, opening only for water. tongue-speakered adj. Drunk on the strength of a private revelation, and explaining it in several unrecognised languages. tongue-tied adj. Drunk since last orders, and still unable to persuade the mouth into useful service by breakfast. tongue-twistered adj. Drunk by closing time, and still making ordinary morning conversation into an exercise in phonetic endurance. tongue-worked adj. Still drunk, and maintaining a low, continuous stream of morning-after chatter without reaching a conclusion. tonguectomied adj. Sufficiently drunk to have the morning after remove speech altogether, leaving only requests for water. Villa tonguectomied after the journey home, requesting water by gesture. tongued (/tʊŋd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that speech has become an elaborate arrangement of movable muscle. Darryus became tongued and spent five minutes repositioning one innocent vowel. tonguednessed adj. Emboldened by drink to count the tongues in the room and announce the result with authority. tonguefished adj. Slowed by drink to hook every sentence over its own mouth before letting it go. Elinora became tonguefished and spent ten minutes trying to retrieve a word from behind her lips. tonguefucked adj. Drunk and treating every conversation as an opportunity for impassioned oral attention. Braylee got tonguefucked and attempted to kiss the barman while asking for the Wi-Fi password. tonguefuckered adj. Drunk to the point where every available surface appears to invite an overfamiliar use of the mouth. Depriest grew tonguefuckered and addressed the ornamental spoon with troubling enthusiasm. tonguefuled adj. Drunk enough to regard one mouthful as a complete and sufficient meal. tonguejobed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a request for directions from an invitation to use the tongue. tongueless frogged adj. Drunk beyond speech, floating through the evening with a determinedly amphibian silence.