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white-shouldered fairywrened
white-throated dippered
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white-shouldered fairywrened
adj.
Of a drinker: small in effect, bright in manner, and unexpectedly difficult to settle.
white-sided dolphinned
adj.
Of a drinker who has begun travelling in sociable arcs rather than straight lines.
Jamianne was
white-sided dolphinned
, making graceful circuits between the tables.
white-slavinged
adj.
Still drunk, and conducting the evening with the dated efficiency of an illicit traffic in persons.
white-spot diseased
adj.
Describing a drinker who has acquired several small white marks and no account of them.
white-supremacisted
adj.
A drinker so far gone that every ordinary disagreement becomes an occasion for an invented hierarchy.
Thearthur became
white-supremacisted
and ranked Mikie according to rules nobody had introduced.
white-tailed blue flycatchered
adj.
A drinker who waits near the busiest doorway and catches every passing remark.
white-tailed deered
adj.
A drinker so far gone that sudden movement sends them quietly towards the nearest cover.
white-tailed eagled
adj.
The state of being drunk and presiding over the room from a suitably elevated chair.
white-tailed hawked
adj.
The condition of a drinker who has chosen one distant point and keeps returning their attention to it.
white-tailed lapwinged
adj.
The drunkenness of one who moves across damp ground with unnecessary care.
white-tailed plovered
adj.
Reduced by drink to crossing open ground with a degree of caution not otherwise required.
Falen was
white-tailed plovered
and took the empty hall as though it contained hazards.
white-tailed ptarmiganned
adj.
Softened by drink into a small, cold-weather creature reluctant to leave its shelter.
white-tailed sea eagled
adj.
Sharpened by drink into an authoritative observer of whatever happens near the water.
Khizr was
white-tailed sea eagled
at the harbour, issuing judgements on passing boats.
white-tailed shriked
adj.
Loosened by drink into a conspicuous perch from which brief remarks are delivered.
white-throated
adj.
Drunk on the strength of one clear note, and prepared to repeat it until migration.
Jalaycia became
white-throated
and sang the same bright phrase through the entire taxi journey.
white-throated dippered
adj.
Too drunk to keep your footing on dry land, yet repeatedly attempting to ford the stairs.
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