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Wycherley combed adj. Still drunk, and arranging the morning's fragments as carefully as a tortoiseshell comb, without improving them. Coretta was Wycherley combed, smoothing each contradictory memory before breakfast. Wycliffianed adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake with a private interpretation of last night, defended despite contrary evidence. Hellon was Wycliffianed, insisting the missing umbrella had been symbolically transferred. Wycliffismed adj. Having drunk enough to turn the morning's hangover into a system of beliefs with supporting evidence. Christo was Wycliffismed, arranging empty glasses into a diagram of the evening. Wycliffisted adj. Having drunk more than the morning can justify, and now defending each omission as deliberate. Eloize was Wycliffisted, claiming the blank hour had been omitted for clarity. Wycliffited (/ˈwɪklɪfaɪtd/) adj. You are drunk and treating yesterday's ordinary accidents as matters requiring careful interpretation. Luci was Wycliffited, finding significance in the position of every breakfast spoon. Wyclifited adj. Of a drinker: still interpreting the morning's evidence, though the evidence has plainly stopped cooperating. Moayed was Wyclifited, offering three readings of the receipt and accepting none. Wykehamisted adj. Of a drinker who has spent the morning examining yesterday's mistakes with academic seriousness and no useful conclusion. Consuela was Wykehamisted, delivering a scholarly account of the misplaced takeaway. Wyomingianed adj. Describing a drinker who faces the morning's wide, empty stretches with a headache and little explanation. Avika was Wyomingianed, crossing the kitchen in silence beneath an unusually spacious headache. Wyomingited adj. A drinker who finds the morning broad, quiet and largely devoid of useful recollection. Floie was Wyomingited, standing in the open kitchen with no plan beyond water. Wythoff constructioned adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's scattered objects form an apparently regular solid around them. Mistaya was Wythoff constructioned, arranging mugs into a symmetrical account of last night. w-anchored adj. Of a drinker who has remained fixed to one regrettable idea since the pub closed. Cashe was w-anchored to the claim that the taxi driver had recognised him from television. w-buffered adj. The state of being drunk and storing depth backwards, so that nearer steps appear farther away. Kire was w-buffered on the staircase, reaching for a step that the room had placed behind him. w-bufferinged adj. The condition of a drinker who interpolates smoothly between two points without reliably reaching either. Wilson was w-bufferinged, drifting between the banister and the wall on every landing. w-shinglinged adj. The drunkenness of one who repeats overlapping fragments of speech until every listener sounds familiar. Caprecia became w-shinglinged and repeated the last three words of each conversation. w-worded adj. Softened by drink into an imprecise insult, delivered whenever coordination reaches its limits. Jazelyn went w-worded after stumbling, and applied the euphemism broadly to the staircase. w33d'd adj. Loosened by drink into treating every inconvenient object as an unwanted plant requiring removal. Sesar got w33d'd and tried to uproot the umbrella stand from the pub floor.