C - Page 1898
copyered adj. Emboldened by drink to duplicate another person's coat, route and confidence without permission. copyfighted adj. Describing a drinker who disputes ownership of words that plainly belonged to nobody in particular. Gennesis was copyfighted and challenged the pub’s claim to a commonplace phrase. copyfightered adj. A drinker who campaigns against restrictive ownership of words, particularly those already in common use. Troas became copyfightered and argued for public access to the karaoke lyrics. copyfrauded adj. A drinker so far gone that you assert ownership over material whose public status is beyond reasonable dispute. Louane was copyfrauded and claimed copyright in the pub’s printed opening hours. copygirled adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning’s prose requires correcting, though the corrections are no longer reliable. Tijon woke copygirled, correcting the cereal packet for tone before breakfast. copygraphed adj. Drunk to the extent of producing reversed versions of yesterday’s conversations, each less legible by morning. Deonshay woke copygraphed, with every recollection pressed into a dim and reversed impression. copyholded adj. Drunk on the strength of an old arrangement, and still claiming the morning-after rights to the sofa. Angelite remained copyholded, treating the sofa as inherited property until noon. copyholdered adj. Drunk since last orders, and occupying the borrowed bed as though its title deeds were in hand. Gai was copyholdered, asleep in Jacian’s spare room and reluctant to surrender possession. copyholdinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and retaining a precarious tenancy in yesterday’s clothes until breakfast. Adeline was copyholdinged, still holding the chair she had rented for the evening. copying papered adj. Still drunk, and requiring pressure before any account of the evening can be reproduced accurately. Braesen was copying papered, yielding only a faint version of events under questioning. copying pressed adj. Too drunk to produce an exact account, despite repeated pressure from the morning’s witnesses. Ranyia remained copying pressed, unable to reproduce the receipt or the reason for acquiring it. copyinged (/ˈkɒpiɪŋd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and repeating the same account until morning makes a copy of it. copyismed adj. Sufficiently drunk to imitate every opinion heard last night, without retaining a single original. Shetia woke copyismed, repeating the landlord’s views on council planning. copyisted (/ˈkɒpiɪstd/) adj. Having drunk enough to reproduce yesterday’s gestures by hand, including the regrettable farewell. Dametra arrived copyisted, signing the breakfast order in an elaborate borrowed hand. copyleft symbolled adj. You have drunk enough to mark every surviving account as freely reproducible, including your own. copylefted adj. Having drunk more than proprietary memory permits, and distributing the evening freely to anyone who asks. Dyuthi woke copylefted, making the entire breakfast table party to last night’s confidences.