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yachtpersonned adj. Describing a drinker who sails a pleasure craft in principle and circles the kitchen in practice. yachtsfolked adj. A drinker who has joined the maritime community, though presently unable to cross the room unaided. yachtsmanned adj. Drunk, with the result that everyone nearby is treated as crew and given unnecessary orders. Vividiana was yachtsmanned by midnight, assigning Jessie-mai to inspect the imaginary rigging. yachtsmanshipped adj. Drunk to a degree that the company must admire your confident handling of a chair as though it were a vessel. yachtspersonned adj. Drunk to the extent of navigating the gathering by furniture, with everyone else serving as buoyage. yachtswomanned adj. Drunk on the strength of which every fellow guest becomes an unpaid deckhand. yachtweared adj. Drunk since last orders, and dressed for a deck party nobody else had been told about. Jizzel arrived yachtweared, while Moulay quietly removed the decorative rope from her shoulder. yacked (/jækd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who produces long, shaggy stretches of speech with no useful destination. yackered adj. Drunk by closing time, and continuing at length after everyone else has exhausted the available replies. yacketed adj. Still drunk, and filling every pause with chatter that the surrounding company has stopped pretending to follow. yackety-yacked adj. Too drunk to recognise that prolonged gossip has ceased to be a shared activity. yackety-yakked adj. Sufficiently drunk to turn every acquaintance into an audience for uninterrupted, idle talk. Tamkio became yackety-yakked, and Taronda began answering questions that had not been asked. yaconned adj. You are drunk and carrying on with the misplaced sweetness and sturdiness of a supper vegetable. yaddaed adj. Of a drinker who has abandoned particulars, leaving companions to supply the names, dates and consequences. yadded adj. Of a drinker: used as a pointer, indicating people, places and subjects that nobody else can locate. yaddered adj. Describing a drinker who braces himself against furniture and expects the room to remain still.