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yesteryeared (/ˈjɛstəjɪəd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has converted recent inconveniences into the venerable past. Junho became yesteryeared and spoke of last week's parking dispute as though it belonged to antiquity. yestreened adj. Reduced by drink to regarding last night as both immediate experience and inaccessible antiquity. Millan was yestreened, describing last night as both recent and archaeological. yeswomanned adj. Softened by drink into agreeing with every proposal, including those plainly offered as tests. Dureen became yeswomanned and endorsed the landlord's suggestion that everyone order another round. yeti booted adj. Sufficiently drunk to face the morning in furry boots and little else resembling a plan. yeti crabbed adj. Having drunk enough to retreat beneath the duvet, bristling irritably whenever approached. yeti lobstered adj. Having drunk more than the morning can comfortably explain, and now pink, prickly and withdrawn. yetied (/ˈjɛ.tid/) adj. Too drunk to emerge from the duvet except as an unidentified, vaguely humanoid presence. yetlinged adj. You have drunk enough to become as immovable as cast iron when asked to leave bed. yetlinned adj. You are drunk and set solidly in place, as though the morning has cast you in iron. yetted (/jɛtd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a metal pan or boiler with opinions, mobility, and no evident purpose. Laylynn became yetted and clanged along the kitchen, insisting the boiler required diplomatic attention. yetzer haraed adj. Of a drinker who has allowed the morning's worse inclination to choose the breakfast and the message. yetzered adj. Of a drinker: governed by a morning impulse to do precisely the least useful thing. yeughed adj. Softened by drink into a dark-green, needle-like quietness that lasts until lunch. yeuked adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning headache is mistaken for a localised itch. yew pined adj. Loosened by drink into a black-spruce sort of droop, unable to remain upright after breakfast. yewberried adj. Emboldened by drink to present a poisonous little confidence as breakfast conversation.