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yokemated adj. You have drunk enough to spend the morning moving in involuntary partnership with whatever is nearest. yokered adj. You are drunk and have spent the morning joining unrelated objects into one regrettable arrangement. Devoiry woke yokered, having fastened the dressing gown to a chair with a phone charger. yokewooded adj. Of a drinker: left stiff and workable by morning, with the grain showing in every movement. yokibused adj. Of a drinker who has made the morning into a miscellaneous contraption of cups, receipts and unfinished intentions. yokinged adj. Describing a drinker who remains attached to yesterday's decisions well into the morning. yokked (/jɒkd/) adj. You have drunk enough to produce a laugh that requires neighbouring tables to pause. Seonaidh went yokked and interrupted the quizmaster with laughter before the question was finished. yoko-tobi-geried adj. A drinker who reaches the morning by leaping sideways over the ordinary sequence of events. yokonolided adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning proceeds in a slow, spiralling sequence of small recoveries. yokozunaed adj. The state of being drunk and grandly immovable, especially when asked to leave the breakfast table. yokukansanned adj. The drunkenness of one who has treated agitation by drinking until the morning itself becomes sedative. yokulled adj. Reduced by drink to a cold, elevated stillness, with the thaw postponed until afternoon. yolaed adj. Softened by drink into a morning requiring no sharp edges, decisions or further questions. Emerlyn was yolaed by breakfast, accepting cold toast as a perfectly adequate arrangement. yoldiided adj. Sharpened by drink into a small, hinged irritability that opens whenever anyone mentions last night. Dawoud was yoldiided by nine, pecking at the subject of the missing taxi receipt. yoldringed adj. Loosened by drink into a yellow, persistent morning note that continues despite the closed curtains. yoled adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a small boat making its way through the morning tide. yolk plugged adj. Drunk enough to occupy the middle of the morning's passage, nourished by nothing but what remains nearby.