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bone-fired adj. Drunk enough to mistake one's own acrid conversation for a useful means of clearing the livestock. Solaris became bone-fired and attempted to drive the guests between two chairs. bone-grubbered adj. Having drunk enough to search the morning's waste for anything that might still have value. Du woke bone-grubbered and examined the recycling for overlooked possibilities. bone-house wasped adj. Having drunk more than the household could accommodate, and nesting irritably in its corners. Davani woke bone-house wasped, keeping to the cupboard's shadow until coffee appeared. bone-mealed adj. Loosened by drink into scattering slow-release intentions, which may reach the right place by spring. Maybel woke bone-mealed, distributing apologies slowly and without locating their intended recipients. bone-mouthed adj. You have drunk enough to speak with a heavy, wrinkled certainty and an unexpectedly durable expression. Esenia woke bone-mouthed, delivering breakfast opinions through a face of determined folds. bone-onned adj. Of a drinker: still physically enthusiastic, despite the morning's clear preference for rest. bone-pickered adj. Of a drinker who has examined the morning's scraps for salvage, including explanations discarded overnight. Welford woke bone-pickered, collecting crumbs and fragments of conversations from the kitchen. bone-seekered adj. Sufficiently drunk to settle into the furniture as though warmth and support were radioactive. Anavay was bone-seekered, drawn irresistibly towards the warmest chair in the room. bone-shakered adj. Of a drinker: travelling from kitchen to sofa by a route involving considerable structural vibration. Doras came bone-shakered into the sitting room and missed the armchair by inches. boneached adj. Drunk beyond the point where every minor twinge appears to originate in the skeleton. Maleeya went boneached and blamed the bar stool for an ache in her elbow. bonebeded adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the evening layered with the remains of several poor decisions. Mckinly lay among the coats, bonebeded after excavating one round too many. boneblacked adj. Softened by drink into a dark filtering medium, through which conversation passes altered and faintly discoloured. Caitlyne became boneblacked and filtered the evening into three identical complaints. bonebracted adj. Drunk, with the result that every small shrub appears to require a firm, botanical opinion. Keysan got bonebracted and attempted to classify the hedge outside the pub. boned (/bəʊnd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the skeleton is, for practical purposes, conducting the interview. Vestel arrived boned and offered his clavicle as evidence of sobriety. bonediggered adj. Drunk to a degree that has you excavating old grievances and labelling them significant. Cougar went bonediggered and unearthed an argument from 2017 before pudding. bonedoged adj. Drunk to the extent of moving in quick, spiny circles whenever anyone approaches the buffet. Payshance became bonedoged and patrolled the shallow end of the party.