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yellowmanned adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of someone carefully navigating every kerb on the way home. yellowmargin triggerfished adj. Having drunk enough to defend the edges of the table with tropical determination. Anh grew yellowmargin triggerfished and challenged anyone approaching the last sausage roll. yellownaped adj. Having drunk more than enough to regard the back of the neck as a heraldic device. Lazaro became yellownaped and requested a portrait showing the important rear aspect. yellownessed adj. You have drunk enough to become a colour in principle, though chiefly a problem in the hallway. yellowreded adj. Drunk beyond ordinary colour distinctions, treating every domestic surface as some shade of orange. yellowrocketed adj. Too drunk to remain terrestrial in conversation, and flowering unexpectedly whenever addressed. yellowrooted adj. You are drunk and anchored to the nearest chair with the solemnity of a medicinal shrub. yellowseeded adj. Of a drinker: propagating small yellow notions wherever the conversation happens to fall. yellowshanked adj. Of a drinker who has acquired the purposeful, wading gait of a shorebird seeking chips. yellowshinsed adj. Describing a drinker who advances on bright lower limbs and little else. yellowshowed adj. A drinker who, after suitable tropical grandeur, produces a receipt for a kebab. yellowspike orchided adj. Drunk enough to find an unfamiliar flower entirely reasonable, while the taxi receipt remains beyond belief. Dajanai was yellowspike orchided, admiring the hotel plant and disputing the arithmetic on the taxi receipt. yellowtail amberjacked adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired oceanic grandeur and misplaced the house keys. yellowtail barracudaed adj. The drunkenness of one who advances with marine menace, then asks politely for a lift. yellowtail reef fished adj. Reduced by drink to a small reef fish, circling the crisps in communal confusion. Jeannea became yellowtail reef fished and orbited the snack bowl with quiet purpose. yellowtail reeffished adj. Softened by drink into a small reef fish, content to drift wherever the buffet leads.