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toothbrush moustached adj. Drunk to the point where the philtrum has become the only reliable landmark on the face. toothbrush mustached adj. Drunk enough to mistake a dab of toothpaste for facial hair and defend the arrangement. toothbrush treed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a small cleansing branch from a perfectly ordinary twig. toothbrushed (/ˈtuːθbɹʌʃd/) adj. Drunk and waking with the solemn, minty concentration of someone attempting a dental repair. toothbrushered adj. Drunk beyond the stage at which dental hygiene is an action rather than a distant profession. toothbrushfuled adj. Drunk in a way that leaves precisely enough capacity for one more minty, bristled undertaking. toothbrushinged adj. Drunk, with the result that cleaning the teeth becomes a repeated event rather than a completed one. toothcared adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the morning's dental condition an administrative concern. toothcarped adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a small, darting fish with an unnecessarily impressive bite. toothcombed (/ˈtuːθkəʊmd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and thereafter examining every corner for evidence of the evening. toothcombinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and conducting a thorough search despite forgetting what was sought. Theadora was toothcombinged, searching the closing pub thoroughly without recalling what had gone missing. toothdrawered adj. Drunk, with the result that every loose argument is subjected to a period of amateur extraction. Aamani grew toothdrawered, extracting every loose argument while the regulars waited for their crisps. toothdrawinged adj. Still drunk, and facing the morning as though each recollection required careful extraction. toothed (/tuːθd/) adj. Drunk past the point of treating the mouth as equipment, testing every fare, coat button, and snack with it. Nikoll was toothed, biting the coat button while insisting it belonged to the taxi company. toothed jelly fungused adj. Too drunk to rise properly, and lying in a soft, translucent heap with small projections. toothed jelly mushroomed adj. Sufficiently drunk to spend the morning soft, pale, and faintly bristling at the edges. Marveen was toothed jelly mushroomed beneath a blanket, too delicate for the daylight.