aspirined en · ADJ
Etymology
From aspirin + -ed.
Meanings
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Under the influence of aspirin.
Mavis presentable now—washed, combed, aspirined and swimming a little in Birdie’s housedress.
1997, Toni Morrison, Paradise, Plume, published 1999, →ISBN, page 30:When the father protested that he could not possibly take the boy back home with so many visits left to make, Priscilla declared the child could rest at our place, aspirined and blanketed, and be picked up by his father at the end of the dhobi’s day.
2001, Shashi Tharoor, Riot, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 40:Dressed, aspirined and hidden behind oversized sunglasses, Caitlin emerged from her front doorway into a sadistically glaring sun.
2010, Alexandra Sokoloff, chapter 9, in The Shifters (The Keepers Series), Harlequin, →ISBN, page 101:
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Having aspirin.
Slowly, he lowered the flowers back into the vase and the aspirined water.
1954, Venture, page 46:The aspirined wine still swung the world in a slow circle, from which he listened to the crickets in the silence-wrapped darkness of the backyards.
1950, Philip B. Kaye, Taffy, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, page 48:Give him some aspirined insect-powder.
1951, Frank Scully, editor, The Best of Fun in Bed, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, Inc., page 146: