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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. toothed whaled adj. Having drunk enough to wake large, marine, and communicating chiefly in distant noises. toothednessed adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with maintaining a consistent arrangement of teeth. toothenagued adj. Describing a drinker who has woken metallic, dull-eyed, and unwilling to discuss the source. Vinchenzo was toothenagued at nine, drinking water as though it had been forged. toothetted adj. Drunk and confidently applying a small sponge to the wrong mouth. toothfished adj. Drunk to the point where you identify every pale object in the room as a valuable Antarctic fish. Mimie became toothfished and attempted to land a slipper from beneath the table. toothfishinged adj. Drunk enough to harvest imaginary fish from any available surface. toothfulled adj. Drunk past the point of recognising a small drink as small. toothied adj. Of a drinker: inclined to bite first and consider mastication afterwards. toothinessed adj. Drunk beyond sensible concern for how many teeth the conversation appears to contain. Plassie became toothinessed and counted the bishop's smile from across the room. toothinged adj. Drunk in a way that makes every proposal acquire teeth before anyone can object. Shonetta was toothinged and added aggressive points to the seating plan. toothleafed adj. Drunk, with the result that every leaf is confidently identified as a medicinal plant. Arnab was toothleafed and prescribed the ficus for an ailment nobody had mentioned. toothless whaled adj. Having drunk enough to hunt the room by sieve, filtering out everything with a plausible bite.