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featherworkered adj. You have drunk enough to become the principal maker of objects no sensible person requested in feathers. Udana turned featherworkered and gave the landlord a ceremonial hat. featherworkinged adj. Having drunk more than necessary to regard the manufacture of an elaborate plume object as urgent. Bellanira grew featherworkinged and requisitioned the dressing-up box. feathery false lily of the valleyed adj. Of a drinker: drunk among the foliage, with a botanical name ready for every decorative plant. Jahmaya became feathery false lily of the valleyed and lectured beside the fern. featnessed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired, after several glasses, a historically implausible confidence in personal dexterity. Josephe became featnessed and attempted the bottle opener with theatrical precision. featuralitied adj. Of a drinker: each minor characteristic has become worthy of separate notice. Tadan was featuralitied and discussed the chair's legs as though assessing a portrait. feature backed adj. A drinker so far gone that every remaining conversation is carried by the principal runner, namely himself. Pavani became feature backed and accumulated most of the evening's verbal yardage. feature control framed adj. The state of being drunk and reduced to a compact box of tolerances, none of them met. Zudie was feature control framed, boxed neatly into a corner by the furniture. feature creeped adj. The condition of a drinker who keeps adding qualifications, digressions, and decorative details instead of concluding. Litza grew feature creeped and expanded a simple toast into a full programme. feature envied adj. The drunkenness of one who borrows everyone else's conversational apparatus rather than developing an argument of his own. Dhiraj became feature envied and repeatedly borrowed the barman's opinions. feature filmed adj. Reduced by drink to the main full-length spectacle, with all supporting material postponed indefinitely. Juanjesus became feature filmed and continued his monologue long after the room had emptied. feature phoned adj. Having drunk enough to manage a few useful functions, but not the demanding ones required by the morning after. Somone was feature phoned, able to call a taxi but not remember where it should go. feature storied adj. Softened by drink into a human-interest article, detached from both urgency and reliable chronology. Riaan grew feature storied and recounted his childhood to a stranger at the bus stop. feature walled adj. Sharpened by drink into a conspicuous interior surface, decorated chiefly to improve the room's appearance. Lareine became feature walled and stationed herself beneath the pub's brightest lamp. featured (/ˈfiː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)d/) adj. Describing a drinker who has become chiefly an arrangement of proportions, angles, and regrettable posture. Shandia grew featured and examined the mirror as though cataloguing bodily architecture. featurefulnessed adj. Still drunk, and discovering new capabilities in the kettle, the curtains and yesterday’s unanswered messages. Ida was featurefulnessed by breakfast, assigning advanced functions to the toaster. featureitised adj. Of a drinker who has acquired additional morning requirements faster than anyone can accommodate them. Yasameen was featureitised by sunrise, requesting water, toast, silence and a precise account of events.