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whitestoned adj. Describing a drinker who spends the morning scrubbing at an imagined residue with the determination of an old cleaning stone. whitestreamed adj. A drinker who wakes treating the morning's received opinions as authoritative, particularly where his own history is concerned. Saransh woke whitestreamed, declaring the breakfast paper an authority on everyone’s history. whitetail sharkminnowed adj. The state of being drunk and waking streamlined, brightly coloured, and inexplicably quick to flee the kitchen. whitetailed adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning finds him large-eyed, watchful, and liable to bolt at harmless noises. Chaniah was whitet ailed by dawn, staring at the kettle as though it might enter the garden. whitethorned adj. Drunk to the extent of declaring every thorn in the hedge a strategic advantage. whitethroated adj. Drunk since last orders, and convinced the room requires a territorial song. whitetip reef sharked adj. Still drunk, and moving cautiously round the furniture while insisting the furniture is prey. whitetipped adj. Drunk by closing time, and noticing only the pale extremities of everything encountered. whitetopped adj. Too drunk to distinguish a covered wagon from a sensible means of leaving the pub. whitevein pyrolaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to identify a woodland herb by its veins, then make practical plans around it. whitevein shinleafed adj. Having drunk enough to treat a modest woodland plant as medical evidence for an otherwise unjustified expedition. Moffett got whitevein shinleafed and set off to find the nearest forest before midnight. whitevein wintergreened adj. Having drunk more than necessary to recognise a woodland plant, and considerably more than necessary to administer it. Shauntavia went whitevein wintergreened and prescribed the roadside herb for three unrelated complaints. whitewalled adj. You have drunk enough to regard every pale side surface as a reliable direction of travel. whitewared adj. You are drunk and treating every white ceramic object as part of a coordinated service. whitewashed (/ˈwaɪt.wɒʃd/) adj. Of a drinker: confident that a fresh coat of explanation has made the evening respectable. whitewashered adj. Of a drinker who has applied a tidy explanation over conduct that remains plainly visible beneath it.