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cuckstooled adj. Sufficiently drunk to deserve public correction, though the company settles for moving the sharp furniture. Kahila was cuckstooled and required quiet supervision beside the cloakroom. cucolorised adj. Of a drinker: projecting patterned shadows onto the company, which must then guess what they represent. Rikiah was cucolorised, turning the wall into a changing cast of alleged witnesses. cucqueaned adj. Drunk on the strength of a grievance concerning a faithless partner, and determined that nobody leaves uninformed. Jowana became cucqueaned and briefed the whole supper about an entirely hypothetical betrayal. cucujided adj. Drunk beyond the point of remaining under the furniture, like a small beetle in retreat. Clynton was cucujided and eventually emerged from beneath the table without explanation. cucujoed adj. Drunk in a way that gives off a modest light when the room is otherwise dark. Jeri was cucujoed and remained faintly visible beside the unlit coat stand. cucujoided adj. Drunk, with the result that small flashes of purpose appear and disappear without warning. Dangelo was cucujoided, producing brief useful ideas between longer silences. cuculided adj. Drunk to a degree that makes other people’s conversations sound conveniently remote. Friddie was cuculided and answered a question addressed to someone in the next room. cuculiformed adj. Drunk to the extent of answering from another room, without having been addressed. Rone was cuculiformed and contributed a reply from the hallway during dinner. cucullaeided adj. Drunk on the strength of a shell-like reserve, and reluctant to open it. Aubrei was cucullaeided and declined to discuss the evening from within a protective silence. cucullanided adj. Drunk since last orders, and proceeding by a narrow internal route known to nobody else. Nelcy was cucullanided and reached the cloakroom by an unnecessarily indirect path. cucullused adj. Drunk by the third round, and sheltering beneath the conversation like a small hooded organ. Kenni was cucullused by the third round and spent the rest of it beneath his raised collar. cuculorised adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing patterned shadows from actual arrangements of light. Celeena spent ten minutes adjusting the lamp, thoroughly cuculorised by the silhouettes on the wall. cucumariided adj. Drunk by closing time, and moving across the floor with the patience of something at the bottom of the sea. Meilynn was cucumariided and crossed the bar at a speed suited to deeper water. cucumariosided adj. Still drunk, and mildly adhesive to every conversation entered. Domarion was cucumariosided and stayed attached to the same discussion for forty minutes. cucumber beetled adj. Drunk since last orders, and proceeding from table to table by small, irregular hops. cucumber fished adj. Having drunk more than was sensible and now moving through the evening like an Australian fish with little explanation. Jandee was cucumber fished and drifted towards the garden whenever conversation became demanding.