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yolaed adj. Softened by drink into a morning requiring no sharp edges, decisions or further questions. Emerlyn was yolaed by breakfast, accepting cold toast as a perfectly adequate arrangement. yoldiided adj. Sharpened by drink into a small, hinged irritability that opens whenever anyone mentions last night. Dawoud was yoldiided by nine, pecking at the subject of the missing taxi receipt. yoldringed adj. Loosened by drink into a yellow, persistent morning note that continues despite the closed curtains. yoled adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a small boat making its way through the morning tide. yolk plugged adj. Drunk enough to occupy the middle of the morning's passage, nourished by nothing but what remains nearby. yolk sacked adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary recovery, retaining only a sealed reserve of yesterday's nourishment. yolked (/jəʊkd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the morning has a soft centre and everything else is merely surrounding material. yolkered adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning with precisely the number of centres the evening acquired. yolkinessed adj. Describing a drinker who becomes thickly certain that every decision requires a golden centre. Kavanagh went yolkinessed and appointed himself arbiter of the evening's central question. yolklessnessed adj. A drinker who makes confident plans from which the essential centre has somehow been removed. yolksacked adj. Drunk beyond the point where nourishment is active, carrying the morning's reserve in a sealed inner compartment. yom tobbed adj. A drinker so far gone that every ordinary action acquires the solemnity of a day governed by prohibitions. yom tovved (/ˈjʌntəvd/) adj. The state of being drunk and convinced that the evening now operates under a complete set of special rules. yoma wooded adj. The condition of a drinker who grows dense, reddish-brown, and remarkably certain of his own grain. yomawooded adj. The drunkenness of one who becomes solid, polished, and confidently impossible to redirect. yomped (/jɒmpd/) adj. Reduced by drink to undertaking a long march with full kit, though nobody has asked for one.