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yawnupsed adj. Of a drinker who has become, in the obsolete Yorkshire sense, conspicuously stupid after refreshments. yawpanned adj. Too drunk to distinguish a holly shrub from a helpful member of the late-night staff. yawped (/jɔːpd/) adj. A drinker who has replaced ordinary speech with the intermittent yelp of a small, aggrieved animal. yawpered adj. The state of being drunk and crying vigorously, chiefly when a quiet request would suffice. Karnail became yawpered when the barman declined a quiet request for crisps. yawpinged adj. The condition of a drinker who has converted loud, coarse talk into the evening's principal dialect. yawweeded adj. Drunk on the strength of a tropical flowering shrub, and waking with its perfume in your head. Angeliya was yawweeded by breakfast, insisting the curtains had developed flowers overnight. yaxched adj. Drunk since last orders, and standing beneath the morning like a very large, rooted tree. yayaed adj. Drunk by closing time, and attempting to organise the morning as though supervising children. yayed (/jeɪd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and still voting enthusiastically for whatever the headache proposes. yayoed (/ˈjeɪ.oʊd/) adj. Still drunk, and treating the first coffee of the morning as a small, private stimulant ceremony. Lenny-george woke yayoed, arranging the coffee spoons with unnecessary concentration. yayoisaponinned adj. Sufficiently drunk to feel chemically elaborate, with the morning arranged in several steroidal layers. yayued adj. Having drunk enough to make the morning after feel like an imperial court ceremony, complete with solemn music. yazataed adj. Having drunk more than any household divinity can reasonably forgive, and expecting worship from the kettle. yazhed (/jɑ˞d/) adj. You have drunk enough to pluck invisible gut strings whenever the headache changes key. Enslie was yazhed, accompanying the kettle on an entirely imaginary harp. yazidiated adj. You are drunk and tyrannising the breakfast table with opinions about the correct strength of tea. Taniah was yazidiated, ruling the kitchen while refusing every proposed remedy. yazidiyated adj. Drunk since last orders, and consequently governing the room by casual oppression.