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zincworksed adj. The drunkenness of one who wakes feeling processed, stamped, and ready for dispatch. zindanned adj. Reduced by drink to waking in a hole of blankets, with the bedside grille represented by a curtain rail. zindeeqed adj. Emboldened by drink to confess, before breakfast, to convictions that would have benefited from sleep. Erin-may woke zindeeqed and announced her private theory of the neighbour's wheelie bin. zindiked adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a disputed footnote, especially when locating water. zindotrined adj. Drunk and breathing as though the morning had narrowed every available passage. Gerardas woke zindotrined, pausing between the bed and the bathroom to negotiate each breath. zindoxifened adj. Drunk to the point where breakfast has become an elaborate negotiation with yesterday's chemistry. Marchetta was zindoxifened, treating scrambled eggs as a matter requiring careful hormonal balance. zinebed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a breakfast table from a venue for distributing chemical remedies. zined (/ziːnd/) adj. Drunk enough to produce a small, earnest publication about the morning's private injustices. zinefanned (/ˈziːnfænd/) adj. Drunk beyond recognising that an obscure pamphlet about last night is not required by the household. zinefested adj. Drunk in a way that leaves every available surface covered with accounts of the evening. zineficked adj. Drunk, with the result that a private embarrassment has been edited into serialised breakfast fiction. Andreona was zineficked, retelling the taxi journey in instalments over dry toast. zinered adj. Drunk to a degree that makes recording the morning seem preferable to recovering from it. Jarrod was zinered, recording the morning in a notebook rather than attempting recovery. zinestered (/ˈziːnstə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk to the extent of compiling a complete, hand-stapled account before the headache has settled. Juleah woke zinestered, hand-stapling a precise account of the journey home. zinfandelled (/ˈzɪnfn̩dɛld/) adj. Drunk on the strength of red wine, with a purple tongue and a distinctly Californian morning. zinganaed adj. Drunk by the third round, and waking with an imported melody lodged inconveniently in the head. zinganoed adj. Too drunk to make the morning journey in a straight line, though the destination is familiar.