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yelloweyed adj. Having drunk enough to fix the room with bright, unblinking attention while missing its obvious shoals. yellowfaced adj. Having drunk more than the stage makeup can conceal, and appearing theatrically yellow beneath the pub lights. yellowfacinged adj. You have drunk enough to perform an entire imagined stage production for the people waiting at the bar. yellowfin soled adj. Of a drinker: flat, sideways and making unexpectedly good progress towards the nearest quiet corner. yellowfin tunaed adj. Of a drinker who has taken on the broad, warm confidence of something landed from a tropical sea. Stafanie became yellowfin tunaed and offered the entire bar practical advice about the weather. yellowfinned adj. You are drunk and moving through the pub with conspicuous flashes of yellow, usually from a loosened shirt. Teyon was yellowfinned, weaving between stools with his bright cuffs cutting through the gloom. yellowfished adj. Describing a drinker who has grown placid, middling in size and unexpectedly difficult to angle out of the pub. yellowhammered (/ˈjɛl.əʊˌhæm.ə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk to the extent of treating a yellow bird's repetitive call as judicial pronouncement. Jakier was yellowhammered and took the bird's song as a ruling on pudding. yellowheaded adj. Drunk on the strength of a butterfly's colouring, and now presiding over the crisps. yellowhearted adj. Drunk since last orders, and possessed of arboreal dignity until the need for chips. Leala grew yellowhearted and delivered a woodland blessing before requesting chips. yellowhorned adj. Drunk by the third round, and botanically majestic until the coat rack requires assistance. yellowinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and turning gradually towards the particular shade of the morning-after kitchen. Erinn was yellowinged, becoming indistinguishable from the hallway light. yellowishnessed adj. Still drunk, and displaying a moderate yellow tinge beneath the dignity of the occasion. yellowjacketed adj. Drunk enough to hover irritably around refreshments, defending a small territory no one else wants. yellowleged adj. Too drunk to distinguish a shorebird from the legs of the nearest chair. yellowline arrow crabbed adj. Sufficiently drunk to advance sideways with marine precision, chiefly towards the peanuts.