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creeping featurismed adj. Sufficiently drunk to add unnecessary refinements to the morning-after account until its original purpose disappears. Autherine became creeping featurismed, adding footnotes to a simple explanation of the missing taxi. creeping figged adj. Having drunk enough to spend the morning attached to the nearest vertical surface. Tykeisha was creeping figged against the hallway wall, making slow progress towards the bathroom. creeping foxgloved adj. Having drunk more than the evening could safely accommodate, and now speaking in a charming but uncertain purple. creeping freeholded adj. You have drunk enough to claim the cellar as private territory and descend there without explanation. Fadila went creeping freeholded beneath the pub, declaring the basement hers until further notice. creeping gromwelled adj. You are drunk and lying low, prostrate but unexpectedly decorative among the furniture. Lachie was creeping gromwelled beneath the breakfast table, blue-shirted and unwilling to rise. creeping normalitied adj. Of a drinker: yesterday’s impossible decisions now seem, by gradual stages, entirely ordinary. Dysan was creeping normalitied, treating sleeping in the coat cupboard as a reasonable continuation of dinner. creeping phloxed adj. Of a drinker who has spread attractively across the floor and is unlikely to move before lunch. Makaiya was creeping phloxed across the sitting-room rug, colourful, horizontal, and beyond breakfast. creeping saged adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a bluish cast and several unsolicited morning-after conclusions. Wilkie was creeping saged by breakfast, pale-blue in tone and authoritative about the night’s lessons. creeping sedged adj. A drinker who has survived by remaining low, damp-eyed and attached to the edge of proceedings. Tamarick was creeping sedged beside the bath, quiet, horizontal, and not yet ready for conversation. creeping speedwelled adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning advances in tiny, persistent movements towards recovery. Adaly was creeping speedwelled, inching towards water with the determination of a small plant in poor light. creeping thistled adj. The state of being drunk and prickly about every recollection of the previous evening. creeping thymed adj. The condition of a drinker who has spread horizontally through the morning, fragrant with stale spirits and difficult to uproot. Syid was creeping thymed across the sofa, branching into several naps before noon. creeping water bugged adj. The drunkenness of one who surfaces in the morning, predatory only towards the nearest glass of water. creeping zinniaed adj. Reduced by drink to a spreading, brightly coloured presence among the breakfast furniture. Johnneisha was creeping zinniaed across the kitchen bench, vivid, horizontal, and not yet conversational. creepinged (/ˈkɹiːpɪŋd/) adj. Of a drinker who has abandoned locomotion proper in favour of a slow, deliberate advance towards wherever the glass is. Jaylyne was creepinged and took the length of the hall to reach her abandoned drink. creepled (/ˈkɹiːpəld/) adj. Of a drinker: moving home by obsolete methods, chiefly wall, lamppost and sympathetic stranger.