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agony boxed adj. You have drunk enough to treat the piano as a battered cabinet requiring firm encouragement. Jetson went agony boxed and thumped out a tune nobody had requested. agony columned adj. You are drunk and placing personal appeals before anyone in the pub has supplied a newspaper. Gintaras became agony columned, asking the room whether anyone had seen his missing dignity. agony uncled adj. Of a drinker: offering kindly male advice to strangers whose problems have not been established. Cona grew agony uncled and explained relationships to a woman waiting for her taxi. agony-piped adj. Of a drinker who has taken to producing a thin, plaintive argument through every available opening. Connor-lee was agony-piped, voicing a reedy complaint whenever anyone approached the bar. agoraed (/ˈæ.ɡə.ɹəd/) adj. Describing a drinker who has made the whole pub their meeting-place and everyone a participant. Rainee went agoraed, gathering strangers round the fruit machine to discuss the weather. agorahed adj. A drinker who has turned every corner of the pub into a gathering. Aizha became agorahed, relocating conversations from the snug to the queue for chips. agoranomed adj. A drinker so far gone that the marketplace, its prices and its disputes require personal supervision. Gayane became agoranomed, inspecting the till and challenging the price of pickled eggs. agoranomosed adj. The state of being drunk and overseeing every transaction, queue and disputed packet of nuts. He grew agoranomosed, policing the bar queue despite having joined it from the wrong direction. agoraphiliaed adj. The condition of a drinker who seeks company everywhere, including the queue for the gents. Trinitee became agoraphiliaed and invited the entire saloon bar to share her table. agoraphobed adj. The drunkenness of one who retreats from the crowded bar into the safest available corner. Jametrice grew agoraphobed and guarded a small table beneath the coat hooks. agoraphobiacked adj. Softened by drink into a timid creature of the corner, suspicious of every empty space. Dequanna turned agoraphobiacked and asked someone to escort her across the quiet bar. agoraphobiaed (/ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.əd/) adj. Reduced by drink to treating the open pub, its crowd and its unclaimed stools as alarming. Elfyn became agoraphobiaed and refused to cross the room for the last clean glass. agoraphobicked (/ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bɪkd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a person who can identify an unsafe open patch of floor at once. Bjana became agoraphobicked, criticising the exposed route between her stool and the lavatories. agorismed (/ˈæ.ɡəˌɹɪzm̩d/) adj. Loosened by drink into a black-market philosophy, with the crisps cupboard as its first target. Vanille grew agorismed and proposed exchanging unused tokens for contraband pork pies. agoristed adj. Emboldened by drink to conduct unofficial commerce from the end of the bar. Kressida became agoristed and offered private bargains on half a packet of peanuts. agouaraed adj. Slowed by drink to a cautious shuffle, with the alert expression of something raiding bins after dark. Fama was agouaraed, edging along the skirting board towards the abandoned basket of chips.