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yakaloed (/ˈjækəloʊd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to combine a broad gait with the confidence of something only partly domesticated. yakamiked adj. Slowed by drink to the stately, uncertain progress of a large bird crossing wet ground. yakared adj. Drunk beyond civility, with the patient menace of an alligator beside a riverbank. yakataed adj. Drunk and standing beneath an invisible roof, with every movement ceremonially deliberate. yakayakaed adj. Drunk to the point where speech has steamed, softened, and lost its original shape. Janeanne was yakayakaed, producing warm syllables that collapsed before reaching the listener. yakayaked adj. Drunk enough to become soft in the knees and pleasantly unstructured in conversation. yakbacked adj. Drunk past the point of carrying oneself, requiring the back of something sturdier for transport. yakchalled adj. Drunk to a degree that stores the last workable thoughts underground and leaves the surface coolly vacant. yakdanned adj. Drunk beyond the capacity to distinguish a staircase from luggage awaiting collection. yakety-yakked adj. Having drunk enough to mistake gossip repeated at length for a contribution to the gathering. yakfested adj. Drunk in a way that turns conversation into a prolonged session of gossip, gesture, and interruption. yakgwaed adj. Drunk, with the result that speech becomes sticky, sweet, and liable to cling to everyone nearby. yakhchalled adj. Drunk to the extent of needing subterranean storage for both speech and remaining coordination. yakhdanned adj. Drunk on the strength of a leather-cased reserve of balance that is nearly exhausted. Abony was yakhdanned, carrying the evening's remaining coordination in a sagging invisible basket. yakhnied adj. Drunk since last orders, and reduced to a warm, slow movement best administered by the spoonful. Vikhyath yakhnied home after last orders, requiring a spoon and patience. yakhontovited adj. The drunkenness of one who has turned the evening a delicate green and lost the last order somewhere in the minerals.