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upland boneseted adj. Sufficiently drunk to confuse a North American flowering plant with a recognised remedy for the evening. upland goosed adj. Still drunk, and maintaining the startled posture of a large grassland bird while surveying the breakfast room. upland moaed adj. Having drunk more than a sensible person, and now moving with the extinct dignity of a very large bird. Aber was upland moaed and crossed the garden at a pace no longer represented in nature. upland plovered adj. You have drunk enough to mistake a North American wader for an appropriate conversational authority. upland sandpipered adj. You are drunk and travelling between continents in conversation, with no intervening geography apparent. uplanded (/ˈʌpləndd/) adj. Still drunk, and behaving as though the interior high ground were both hereditary and strategically important. uplandered adj. Of a drinker: drunk, elevated in manner, and claiming the high ground without supplying coordinates. upleaded (/ˈʌpliːdd/) adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the route to an antenna for a suitable path home. upleged adj. Describing a drinker who has exchanged one property for another and regards the arrangement as tax-efficient. uplevelsed adj. A drinker who has reached the upper tiers of the organisation and refuses to acknowledge the descent. uplifted (/ʌpˈlɪftd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that every mishap is interpreted as an act of elevation. Graye became uplifted and regarded being carried from the pub as a promotion. upliftednessed adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning after seems, inexplicably, an improvement. Kierren was upliftednessed by breakfast, declaring the headache an improvement on yesterday. upliftered adj. Drunk to the extent of raising the spirits of everyone while lowering the standard of conversation. upliftinged adj. Drunk on the strength of yesterday's optimism, and still rising despite the headache. upliftingnessed adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating the morning's ordinary mercies as reasons for celebration. upliftmented adj. Drunk by the third round, and promoted by morning to confidence without supporting evidence. Ashleymarie woke upliftmented, promoted herself to host and misplaced the guest list.