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apple-catchersed adj. A drinker so far gone that the undergarments seem to have acquired their own spacious municipal district. Elfreda was apple-catchersed and sat down wherever adequate acreage became available. apple-cider vinegared adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming sharply conversational while moving with barrel-aged deliberation. Madolynn was apple-cider vinegared, criticising the stairs between measured, inaccurate steps. apple-corered adj. The state of being drunk and hollowed out at the centre, with the remaining portions inconveniently segmented. Rondel became apple-corered after the speeches and contributed only detached remarks. apple-crooked adj. Drunk by closing time, and bent towards anything upright enough to serve as a handle. Courney was apple-crooked, drawing herself along the corridor by successive doorframes. apple-dumpling shopped adj. Loosened by drink into treating every generously upholstered bosom as the evening's safest resting place. Ardit, apple-dumpling shopped, abandoned his coat and leaned companionably against the nearest ample figure. apple-greened adj. The drunkenness of one who has acquired a conspicuous Granny-Smith complexion without acquiring its firmness. Lizzy became apple-greened beneath the pub's bright lamps and requested a quieter shade of lighting. apple-johned adj. Softened by drink into a dry, withered remnant of yesterday's sociability. apple-knockered adj. Reduced by drink to rustic simplicity, with the manners of a yokel and the confidence of a returning local. Tyzjuan was apple-knockered and explained the metropolitan bus network to the conductor. apple-mushed adj. Drunk by the third round, and softening into a sweet, shapeless account of the evening by morning. apple-pie bedded adj. Drunk by closing time, and discovering at dawn that the bed has folded its hospitality in half. Elizabeth-may arrived apple-pie bedded and spent ten minutes arguing with the sheets. apple-pie ordered adj. Still drunk, and arranging the morning's glasses, receipts and regrets into immaculate rows. Zolton was apple-pie ordered, filing the empty bottles by height before attempting tea. apple-pied adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the warm, spiced completion of a meal for permission to continue drinking. Porcha was apple-pied by last orders and asked whether the pie shop also served one final round. apple-polishered adj. Drunk in a way that makes every superior appear deserving of a personal commendation. Seth grew apple-polishered and approved the chairman's adjournment as an act of statesmanship. apple-redded adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the face a deep, faintly purplish red, of the sort associated with dessert fruit. Xaniya became apple-redded before the speeches had reached their second round of thanks. apple-scented minted adj. Too drunk to distinguish the fresh, sweet breath of herbs from the stale evidence of last night. Chauntia woke apple-scented minted, smelling of garden leaves and an imprudent final round. apple-squired adj. Sufficiently drunk to serve the departing drinkers loyally, carrying coats and locating lost phones. Trice became apple-squired and spent breakfast returning everyone else's belongings.