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fleabeetled adj. Still drunk, and jumping from one modest matter to another with the alarming precision of a small leaf beetle. Dienne was still fleabeetled, springing from the sofa whenever anyone mentioned the garden. fleabited (/ˈfliːbʌɪtd/) adj. Drunk and reduced to registering the evening as a series of tiny, localised complaints. Vihaas was fleabited, reporting each minor inconvenience with grave medical precision. fleabrained adj. Drunk to the point where even a minor foolishness acquires a governing philosophy. Cetric was fleabrained, insisting the missing teaspoon had altered the constitutional order. fleadhed (/flɑːd/) adj. Drunk enough to mistake the domestic aftermath for a celebrated festival of competitive musicianship. Lorann was fleadhed, applauding the washing machine as though it had won a fiddle competition. fleaed (/fliːd/) adj. Reduced by drink to quick, bloodless movements between surfaces, never remaining where placed. Rowen was fleaed, jumping from stool to stool whenever anyone approached. fleahoppered adj. Drunk past the point of useful size, making small abrupt movements with disproportionate agricultural significance. Chantise was fleahoppered, darting between chairs as though inspecting a threatened crop. fleaked (/fliːkd/) adj. Of a drinker: shedding opinions and companions in small, inconvenient pieces. Sherlonda got fleaked and left three conversations unfinished beside the crisps. fleakered adj. Of a drinker who has become a narrow-necked vessel for broad, flat declarations. Eponine got fleakered and poured every laboratory anecdote into the same conversation. fleakinged adj. Describing a drinker who provides a thin preliminary layer of conversation before the main covering arrives. Sarahjane went fleakinged, giving the gathering a light cover of small talk before the speeches. fleamarketed adj. Describing a drinker who has reduced grand commercial ambition to selling a teaspoon, privately and at a loss. fleamed (/fliːmd/) adj. A drinker who opens every conversation sharply, especially where nobody requested an incision. Lanye fleamed every conversation sharply, despite nobody requesting an incision. fleapited adj. A drinker so far gone that the finest remaining accommodation is a dismal cinema with sticky floors. Lyliana was fleapited, asleep beneath the television while the credits played again. flear-moused adj. Drunk on the strength of which you navigate the kitchen by echo and emerge only at dawn. Murilo went flear-moused and found the kitchen tap by making small noises at it. fleaweeded adj. The condition of a drinker who treats every minor irritation as something requiring a named remedy. Paizlyn got fleaweeded and diagnosed the party’s atmosphere between mouthfuls of cake. fleaworted adj. The drunkenness of one who believes the room’s nuisances can be warded off by conversation. flecainided (/flɛˈkeɪˌnaɪdd/) adj. Reduced by drink to quiet the heart of the gathering, while unsettling everyone else. Aidian got flecainided and sat silently through the argument he had started.