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yellow-eyed penguined adj. Softened by drink into shuffling sideways through the morning, blinking at the light and guarding the last cold toast. yellow-flowered water hyssopped adj. Drunk, with the result that a creeping herb appears to offer a respectable route through the flowerbed. yellow-goldsed adj. Sharpened by drink into treating yesterday's modest roadside flower as an asset whose value will surely rise. yellow-green algaed adj. Still drunk, and separating at the breakfast table into two distinct and faintly coloured concerns. yellow-green brushfinched adj. The condition of a drinker who perches on the back of the sofa, chirping brightly while occupying very little space. yellow-greened adj. Drunk to the extent of declaring two incompatible colours indistinguishable and dressing accordingly. yellow-hammered adj. Emboldened by drink to deliver a loud morning verdict on every bird visible from the window. yellow-headed amazonned adj. The drunkenness of one who repeats the same household announcement loudly until the entire kitchen has heard it. yellow-headed blackbirded adj. Reduced by drink to a dark, solemn figure with a conspicuously bright head bent over the kitchen table. Maylan sat yellow-headed blackbirded, dark and solemn beneath a conspicuously bright tea towel. yellow-jacketed adj. Drunk to the point where every conversation becomes an aggressive little flight from one person to the next. yellow-legged gulled adj. Softened by drink into a large, loose-limbed presence that accepts the sofa as a shoreline. yellow-legged tinamoued adj. Sharpened by drink into a person who notices every crumb on the kitchen floor and investigates each one. yellow-lipped sea kraited adj. Loosened by drink into a striped, aquatic sort of person who keeps sliding towards the nearest water. yellow-mantled weavered adj. Emboldened by drink to stitch together household objects into a nest and declare it ready for visitors. yellow-naped amazonned adj. Slowed by drink to the point where reaching for the water glass becomes a measured household expedition. yellow-necked field moused adj. Drunk and creeping round the kitchen edge, pausing whenever the refrigerator makes a noise. Hardam was yellow-necked field moused, travelling along the skirting board towards the sofa.