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yellow beeted adj. Having drunk enough to turn every minor disagreement into a matter for careful cultivation. yellow bellied adj. Drunk enough to retreat from a harmless challenge while insisting that discretion is the better part of valour. Shawnequa went yellow bellied when asked to settle the darts dispute she had started. yellow bellsed adj. Having drunk more than the company could politely ignore, and ringing for attention at intervals. yellow biled adj. You have drunk enough to make irritability the evening's principal secretion. yellow birched adj. You are drunk and swaying with the patient, branching persistence of something rooted in cold ground. yellow bird's-nested adj. Of a drinker: dependent on surrounding company for every movement, decision, and eventual departure. yellow bitterned adj. Of a drinker who has withdrawn their neck into silence, then struck suddenly at innocent remarks. yellow bobbed adj. Describing a drinker who keeps appearing brightly at the edge of every conversation. Sharolynn got yellow bobbed and surfaced beside each group before anyone could finish speaking. yellow boned adj. A drinker who has made the room's superficial distinctions everybody else's administrative burden. Naiyla became yellow boned and sorted the guests by appearances nobody had asked about. yellow boxed adj. A drinker so far gone that the room has become a series of marked wooden enclosures. yellow boyed adj. The state of being drunk and spending the evening as though everyone present were owed a coin. Makalie became yellow boyed and offered Diran money to finish an argument. yellow brain fungused adj. The drunkenness of one who has spread quietly across the room in damp, irregular patches. yellow brained adj. The condition of a drinker who has become soft, branching, and difficult to remove from the furniture. yellow brick roaded adj. Reduced by drink to following an imagined route towards a destination the group cannot identify. yellow bristle grassed adj. Sharpened by drink into an irritating spread of small objections across the entire gathering. Stell was yellow bristle grassed, spreading tiny objections across the gathering with admirable confidence. yellow broomed adj. Loosened by drink into sweeping through the company, gathering loose remarks and carrying them elsewhere.