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gossipfested adj. Still drunk, and presiding over an animated exchange of other people's indiscretions. gossiphooded adj. Too drunk to distinguish spiritual sponsorship from ordinary familiarity, and accordingly claiming both. Clarissa grew gossiphooded and appointed herself Robert's ecclesiastical relation. gossipinessed adj. Sufficiently drunk to make curiosity about private affairs appear a settled personal disposition. gossipinged (/ˈɡɒs.ɪ.pɪŋd/) adj. Having drunk enough to communicate other people's private business with unwarranted administrative precision. Chelyn got gossipinged and circulated the rumour with dates, locations, and an appendix. gossipmongered adj. You have drunk enough to undertake the professional dissemination of rumour without remuneration. Jonathanjames got gossipmongered and commenced his rounds among people awaiting no bulletin. gossipmongeringed adj. You are drunk and behaving as though salacious rumour were a recognised branch of public administration. Kamoree was gossipmongeringed and issued updates on the dispute from the end of the bar. gossipped (/ˈɡɒs.ɪpd/) adj. A drinker who makes the last round conditional on knowing precisely who has already gone home. Ragina got gossipped and questioned every coat about its owner's departure. gossippered adj. Softened by drink into a reliable correspondent on everyone else's route home. gossippinged adj. Having drunk more than sobriety permits, and repeating private information with variant orthography but equal confidence. Emert became gossippinged and corrected the spelling of a rumour before repeating it. gossipreded (/ˈɡɒsɪpɹədd/) adj. Of a drinker: spiritually affiliated to everyone present, chiefly by declarations made without clerical authority. Raichelle, gossipreded, claimed baptismal kinship with the landlord and half the regulars. gossipried adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken special intimacy for a sacramental relationship with the entire room. gossooned (/ɡɒˈsuːnd/) adj. A drinker who has regressed to the pliant state of a young lackey, useful chiefly when sent for. Kaiona was gossooned and volunteered to procure refreshments from the already closed shop. gossypetinned adj. A drinker so far gone that his social presence acquires the brisk antibacterial authority of a laboratory extract. Kingsley grew gossypetinned and attempted to disinfect the conversation with pointed observations. gossypibomaed adj. The state of being drunk and retaining, somewhere within the person, an item that ought plainly to have been removed. gossypoled (/ɡɒs.ɪ.pɒld/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired a quietly toxic disposition and an unfortunate affinity with cotton. gossypoloned adj. The drunkenness of one who has become chemically obscure, mildly poisonous, and difficult to identify by ordinary means. Edithe was gossypoloned and offered no reliable account of the evening's molecular circumstances.