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yacared adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary conversation, with every interruption answered by a slow reptilian stare. Kimiko grew yacared during the speeches and regarded each applause with suspicion. yacataed adj. Drunk, with the result that you assume a rounded monumental shape and invite people to climb you. yaccaed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes you tall, evergreen, and permanently stationed in the garden. yacht clubbed adj. Drunk by the third round, and behaving as though membership conferred command of the harbour. yacht personned adj. Drunk by closing time, and preparing to relocate with considerable means and a small loyal community. yacht rocked adj. Still drunk, and delivering smooth late-seventies harmonies to a room that requested silence. yachtdomed adj. Too drunk to leave the maritime realm, though the realm is presently a wet patch beside the sink. yachted (/jɒtd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of acquiring a light vessel, a crew of one, and nowhere sensible to moor. yachteed adj. Sufficiently drunk to sail a yacht, provided the yacht is a bath and the voyage ends at bedtime. yachtered (/ˈjɒtəɹd/) adj. Having drunk enough to sail imaginary yachts through the furniture, preferably under reduced visibility. yachtfulled adj. Having drunk more than a yacht will hold, and now requiring a harbour of one's own. yachtied adj. Drunk by the third round, and behaving as though every room were a marina with a social hierarchy. yachtinged adj. You have drunk enough to regard crossing the room as a coastal pursuit requiring suitable weather. yachtisted (/ˈjɒtɪstd/) adj. You are drunk and sailing the evening by instinct, with the curtains serving as coastline. yachtmanned adj. Of a drinker: commanding an imaginary vessel with dated confidence, then asking where the loo is. yachtmanshipped adj. Of a drinker who has mastered the art of nautical conduct, but not the art of standing up. Nestor displayed yachtmanshipped composure until the moment he attempted to leave the chair.