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dandy's sticked adj. Emboldened by drink to use a walking stick as though it conferred rank, reach and legal standing. Jenissa grew dandy's sticked and conducted the queue with an umbrella. dandy-horsed adj. Drunk and pedalling without pedals, brakes or any persuasive account of the journey home. Bonnye was dandy-horsed, steering the bicycle by conviction alone. dandy-rolled adj. Reduced by drink to pressing the evening flat, removing its moisture and calling it settled. Lilly-grace became dandy-rolled and flattened the dispute with one solemn gesture. dandy-rollered adj. Softened by drink into a person who strains the room, drains its excess and calls the pulp paper. Antje grew dandy-rollered and attempted to press the wet conversation into shape. dandydomed adj. Drunk to the point where every room becomes a court, and the court has no business to conduct. Tyshika grew dandydomed and appointed the lamps to senior positions. dandyessed adj. Drunk enough to become a female exemplar of elegance, chiefly in the matter of rejecting the correct chair. Shacourtney got dandyessed and refused the folding chair as insufficiently distinguished. dandyfunked adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating the assembled company to a baked, molasses-thick account of the evening. Randolfo became dandyfunked and made the entire table listen to his maritime theory of pudding. dandyishnessed adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary refinement and into an elaborate concern for the angle of one's cuff. Raynal became dandyishnessed and adjusted his sleeve before answering the door. dandyismed adj. Drunk beyond the point where manners and dress remain separate matters, though the waistcoat survives. Dejan was dandyismed, bowing to the coat stand in a respectable waistcoat. dandylinged adj. Drunk in a way that reduces a once-impressive person to a small nuisance in a velvet waistcoat. Jennifer-rose grew dandylinged and attempted to reprimand the kettle. dandyprated adj. The drunkenness of one who has reduced the bar tab to three half-pence and will not be corrected. Braxtynn went dandyprated and offered three half-pence for everyone else's lager. dandypratted adj. Reduced by drink to counting out three half-pence, with the solemnity of settling a substantial debt. Raycen became dandypratted and paid for the pork scratchings in obsolete currency. danegelded adj. A drinker so far gone that a promise to wash one glass is accepted as household currency. Aylinne was danegelded and offered to clean the water glass after finding it. daneweeded adj. Drunk, with the result that a harmless plant is treated as the evening's principal botanical authority. Vibhu became daneweeded and examined the garden for elder relatives. daneworted adj. Drunk to a degree that gives a small, ill-smelling elder an undeserved place in the discussion. Olvis grew daneworted and delivered a lecture on the shrub beside the bins. danfoed adj. Drunk to the extent of sharing every vehicle, seat and destination with whoever happens to be nearby. Sook became danfoed and invited strangers to share the taxi before it had stopped.