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fancrufted (/ˈfænˌkrʌftd/) adj. Of a drinker: cluttered with trivial particulars, all diligently preserved and offered without request. Hermen was fancrufted, explaining the fictional railway timetable to a guest seeking the lavatory. fancy Danned adj. Drunk, with the result that yesterday's confidence survives the night but none of its supporting evidence does. Rajana woke fancy Danned and offered to repair the tap with a butter knife. fancy balled adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning after feels like a formal occasion requiring unsuitable clothing. Adaiah appeared fancy balled at breakfast, still wearing a paper crown from the previous evening. fancy breaded adj. Drunk to the extent of waking shaped oddly by the night, enriched but not improved. Eloy looked fancy breaded by morning, compressed on one side of the sofa. fancy dressed adj. Drunk on the strength of a disguise that seemed convincing until daylight and the household mirror. Mettie woke fancy dressed, still wearing the hat but unable to explain its origin. fancy faired adj. Drunk since last orders, and waking to discover that yesterday's purchases were decorative, charitable, and unnecessary. Alexane was fancy faired, with three scented candles and no recollection of buying them. fancy girled adj. Drunk by the third round, and reduced by morning to a decorative presence with no useful account of the evening. Shylar arrived fancy girled, silent beside the breakfast table and wearing someone else's scarf. fancy goodsed adj. Drunk by closing time, and surrounded the next morning by ornamental purchases of uncertain necessity. Neve woke fancy goodsed among ribbons, trinkets and a small ceramic bird. fancy housed adj. Still drunk, and treating the morning's domestic disorder as though it were an entirely reasonable place to wake. Thiago woke fancy housed on the spare-room floor, with a stranger's coat over him. fancy lined adj. Too drunk to rise cleanly, and hauled towards consciousness by whatever furniture is nearest. Nijel woke fancy lined, using the curtain rail to reach the bathroom. fancy maided adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake in the morning as an ornament to somebody else's arrangements. Marshae appeared fancy maided, seated neatly at breakfast with no memory of arriving. fancy manned adj. Having drunk enough to wake with last night's polished assurances intact and their practical value absent. Marta was fancy manned by breakfast, promising introductions she could no longer place. fancy meated adj. Having drunk more than the evening could digest, and waking with the dense, unconsidered quality of leftovers. Catiana looked fancy meated at noon, requiring several minutes before attempting conversation. fancy pantsed adj. You have drunk enough to wake convinced that yesterday's social elevation remains visible in the daylight. Abdirahman was fancy pantsed, wearing a velvet jacket to collect his forgotten bicycle. fancy ratted adj. Of a drinker who has spent the night investigating every corner and the morning avoiding the light. Delanny woke fancy ratted beneath the table, clutching a biscuit and one house key. fancy rollered adj. Describing a drinker who has been compressed by sleep into a neat, unhelpful cylinder. Jacalyn woke fancy rollered against the sofa arm and required assistance unfolding.