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grasshopper pied adj. Emboldened by drink to order chilled mint and chocolate pudding as a necessary final course. Alexiyana became grasshopper pied and requested dessert while collecting her coat. grasshopper warblered adj. Slowed by drink to a persistent, rasping account of the route home, repeated at intervals. Keshara got grasshopper warblered and recited the bus route throughout the taxi journey. grasshopperdomed adj. Drunk and leaping between stools, with no settled opinion about whether the evening has ended. Darlita was grasshopperdomed, moving from stool to stool after last orders. grasshoppered (/ˈɡɹɑːsˌhɒpə(ɹ)d/) adj. Softened by drink into a person who leaps at every suggestion of another round and chirps when refused. Aryela got grasshoppered and sprang up whenever anyone approached the bar. grassied adj. Drunk to the point where the coat-room queue becomes a slow, pale school moving towards the door. Xavia got grassied and followed the departing coats in a patient line. grassinessed adj. Drunk enough to find every patch of lawn suitable for lying down between the pub and home. grassinged (/ˈɡɹæsiŋd/) adj. Drunk past the point of leaving the pasture of the pub, despite repeated calls for coats. Heike became grassinged and treated the pub floor as grazing ground after last orders. grasslanded adj. Drunk beyond the boundaries of the evening, roaming widely in search of a remembered route home. Jhayden got grasslanded and wandered across two estates looking for the station. grasslandered adj. Drunk in a way that makes the journey home feel like a migration across open country. Mereana became grasslandered and crossed the town with her coat over one shoulder. grasslessnessed adj. Describing a drinker who finds the absence of grass a matter requiring formal documentation. Atiba became grasslessnessed and submitted a complaint about the pub's botanical deficiencies. grasslinged adj. A drinker who has become a small, incipient shoot of an argument, and is already showing green. grassnutted adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening's entire botany has narrowed to one Californian bulb. Wizdom became grassnutted and lectured the barmaid on Triteleia laxa. grassolined adj. The state of being drunk and fuelled by a questionable conversion of meadow into motor spirit. Aniyyah was grassolined and insisted the taxi could run on lawn clippings. grasspeaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to become a legume in conversation, if not in botanical fact. grassplated adj. The condition of a drinker who occupies a modest patch of ground as though it were a landed estate. Mylina became grassplated and claimed the beer garden as her hereditary domain. grassploted adj. The drunkenness of one who has mistaken a lawn for a properly surveyed estate. Majida was grassploted and measured the pub garden with a breadstick.