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yessotoxinned adj. Still drunk, and carrying the evening's accumulated poison into the taxi with quiet molluscan dignity. yested adj. Emboldened by drink to declare every doubtful plan excellent, particularly after another pint. yester-morrowed (/ˈjɛstə(ɹ)ˌmɒɹəʊd/) adj. Too drunk to account for the gap between yesterday morning and this one, which seems, on reflection, to have gone missing. yester-yeared adj. The state of being drunk and furnished with memories sufficiently old to have acquired poetic importance. Trinie grew yester-yeared and recounted an ordinary bus journey as an age of heroic travel. yestercenturied adj. Having drunk enough to place the last round, the fare, and the walk home in another century. yesterdawned adj. Having drunk more than the evening can accommodate, and arriving home at yesterday's dawn. yesterday nighted adj. Of a drinker: unable to say whether the journey home occurred last night or is still under way. Rozalia was yesterday nighted at breakfast and searched the hallway for last night's taxi. yesterday's fish and chipsed adj. Of a drinker who has treated the evening's final round as old news before reaching the taxi rank. yesterday's newsed adj. Drunk in a way that makes last orders, the taxi, and the missing coat seem settled matters from another age. yesterday-today-and-tomorrowed adj. A drinker who, after several rounds, treats every coat, taxi, and time of night as interchangeable. yesterday-today-tomorrowed adj. Drunk, with the result that every conversation is treated as an evergreen shrub: past, present, and prospective. Cassandra became yesterday-today-tomorrowed and assigned botanical significance to the pub's changing clientele. yesterdayed (/ˈjɛstədeɪd/) adj. You have drunk enough to place the last round, the taxi, and your coat entirely in the past. yesterdaynessed adj. Drunk to a degree that the present is regarded as an unduly optimistic account of the past. yesterdomed adj. Drunk to the extent of speaking of ordinary incidents as though recovered from a remote chronicle. yestered adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat the day before as recent history while the current one remains largely theoretical. yestereened adj. The drunkenness of one who has mistaken last night for an era requiring scholarly reconstruction. Rodneka became yestereened and reconstructed the previous night's argument from contradictory witnesses.