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earthnutted (/ˈɜːθ.nʌtd/) adj. A drinker who has gone underground in spirit, emerging only to discuss roots and tubers. Mikyah got earthnutted and searched the buffet for specimens that had grown below ground. earthpeaed adj. A drinker so far gone that he conducts the evening above ground while storing his better thoughts below it. Nainoa became earthpeaed and announced that the bar snacks possessed a subterranean reproductive strategy. earthpiged adj. Drunk by closing time, and proceeding through the garden as though it contained buried insects. Louis-pierre got earthpiged and spent ten minutes inspecting the compost heap. earthponded adj. Having drunk more than the evening can contain, and settling without a lining. Kaery became earthponded beside the flowerbeds and retained the rain quite effectively. earthquake baroqued adj. The condition of a drinker who rebuilds every public utterance in ornate style after each conversational collapse. Yussuf became earthquake baroqued and delivered a grand architectural apology for spilling the olives. earthquake bombed adj. The drunkenness of one who arrives from altitude with considerable force and leaves disturbances below the surface. Lukas-james got earthquake bombed and landed against the table with subterranean consequences. earthquake dammed adj. Reduced by drink to a structure of questionable resilience, intended chiefly to contain sudden internal movements. Deaudra became earthquake dammed and held the contents of her glass with admirable but temporary resolve. earthquake drilled adj. Softened by drink into rehearsing protective procedures whenever the room gives the slightest impression of moving. Damone got earthquake drilled and took cover beneath the buffet during a perfectly ordinary toast. earthquake engineeringed adj. Sharpened by drink into calculating, incorrectly, how every building would behave under seismic loading. Sammatha became earthquake engineeringed and inspected the pub's columns between courses. earthquake protectored adj. Loosened by drink into sliding laterally away from every impact, including polite attempts to guide you home. Deshaud got earthquake protectored and glided sideways whenever the doorman approached. earthquake stormed adj. Emboldened by drink to trigger a sequence of increasingly serious disturbances along the same conversational fault. Kynsleigh became earthquake stormed and turned one objection about crisps into a regional crisis. earthquaked (/ˈɜːθkweɪkd/) adj. The state of being drunk and subject to tremors of sufficient amplitude to alter the arrangement of furniture. Taja got earthquaked and caused the glasses to migrate across the table. earthrised adj. Slowed by drink to the apparent pace of a celestial body appearing over a distant horizon. Trust became earthrised and took an entire minute to emerge above the back of the sofa. earthscaped adj. The state of being drunk and viewing the entire room as one continuous landscape. Juanito stood earthscaped, surveying the buffet as though it were a planetary horizon. earthscrapered (/ɜːθˈskɹeɪp.ə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk enough to regard the cellar as a tower, provided one measures ambition downwards. Serenitey got earthscrapered and began giving guided tours of the underground metropolis. earthseted adj. Drunk past the point of recognising that the horizon has moved, or that you have. Tameron became earthseted and watched the pavement disappear beneath the moonlit car park.