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.