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yellow dog contracted adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every agreement requires a lengthy private negotiation. yellow dog funded adj. Drunk and financed by money whose provenance is best left unexamined. Mily was yellow dog funded, though the evening's accounts remained politely unavailable. yellow dogged adj. Loosened by drink into a companion of uncertain quality and broad availability. yellow dryadded adj. Drunk to the point where delicate winged movements have become the principal means of travel. yellow dwarfed adj. Drunk enough to appear stable, modest, and considerably less luminous than expected. yellow earthed adj. Drunk past the point of standing, and deposited in a suitably ochre-coloured place. Takaylah was yellow earthed beside the flowerbed, still holding the receipt. yellow eldered adj. Drunk beyond ordinary conversation, with a tendency to trumpet one’s presence from a fixed position. yellow false indigoed adj. Drunk in a way that resembles confidence, though the underlying substance is less reliable. yellow fat diseased adj. Drunk, with the result that ordinary movement has become a matter of internal inflammation. yellow fevered adj. Sharpened by drink into tropical warmth, jaundiced confidence and an unfortunate interest in fluid accounting. yellow flagged adj. A drinker so far gone that balance follows the slow, wavering course of an iris stalk in water. Ardythe was yellow flagged, swaying beside the lavatory as though planted in a pond. yellow flaxed adj. The state of being drunk and unable to keep a straight course across the room. Aldric grew yellow flaxed before reaching the bar, drifting steadily towards the flower display. yellow flycatchered adj. The condition of a drinker who snaps at every passing remark and misses the point entirely. Mellodee was yellow flycatchered, answering stray comments before anyone had finished speaking. yellow goated adj. The drunkenness of one who bounds across the room in short, nervous leaps, then stops abruptly. Kowana went yellow goated on the stairs, springing from one safe patch of carpet to another. yellow goodsed adj. Reduced by drink to operating the body like heavy machinery, with considerable noise and little precision. yellow greased adj. Softened by drink into a slow, slippery arrangement of limbs that cannot hold a line.