tongkonanned
tongue rollinged

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tongkonanned adj. The state of being drunk and acquiring a roof-like stillness over the sofa. Chidozie was tongkonanned, settled beneath the lampshade as though it were a roof. tongmanned adj. Of a drinker: organised into a private fraternity, with the evening governed by obscure internal rules. Juztin became tongmanned and began admitting only selected bottles to the table.
tongstered adj. Of a drinker who has joined an illicit association of the sort that regards conviviality as administration. tonguaged adj. Describing a drinker who has made the mouth the principal instrument of the evening. tongue and grooved adj. Softened by drink into a person who fits every conversation badly but insists the joints are sound. tongue bathed adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose social technique has become indecorously oral. tongue boned adj. Emboldened by drink to speak from the throat's small supporting architecture, with unjustified anatomical authority. tongue clackered adj. Slowed by drink to the conversational output of a tireless instrument with little discernible content. tongue depressored adj. Drunk to the point where the mouth requires examination, preferably by a professional and preferably tomorrow. Nashaley became tongue depressored and submitted to an imaginary inspection by the bartender. tongue drummed adj. Drunk enough to strike the available conversation for tones, producing notes rather than useful propositions. tongue in chicked adj. Drunk enough to turn every morning-after explanation into a joke whose style is more confident than its content. Keagyn got tongue in chicked and presented the missing shoe as a sophisticated visual gag. tongue kissed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a greeting from an unnecessarily committed demonstration of it. tongue lashinged adj. Drunk beyond the point at which a verbal rebuke remains proportionate to its subject. tongue mapped adj. Drunk, with the result that every flavour is assigned a precise district and defended as policy. tongue ringed adj. Drunk to a degree that the mouth is treated as a display case for jewellery not presently there.
tongue rollinged adj. Drunk to the extent of producing a hereditary linguistic talent on demand, whether required or not.