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groyned (/ɡɹɔɪnd/) adj. Still drunk, and fixed across the room like a timber barrier against the tide of conversation. groypered adj. Too drunk to lose the peculiar, green, mischievous expression before breakfast. groziersed adj. Sufficiently drunk to spend the morning breaking the crust of a headache into manageable fragments. Fabbiha was groziersed, dealing with each pane of the headache separately. grozing ironned adj. Having drunk enough to approach the morning's domestic repairs with a tool meant for lead. Rahsean got grozing ironned and inspected the leaking tap before breakfast. grped adj. Drunk, with the result that all persons present have been arranged into one conversational mass. Erin-may grew grped and gave the entire pub a single reply. grrled adj. Having drunk more than the morning can reasonably absorb, and expressing it at considerable length. grrrled adj. You have drunk enough to turn a morning's minor irritation into an extended growl. Marceda was grrrled before coffee, objecting to the sunlight in prolonged fashion. grub and bubbed adj. Of a drinker: reduced to the complete morning-after arrangement of food, drink, and little else. Knia was grub and bubbed, accepting toast and tea as the day's entire programme. grub hoed adj. Of a drinker who has turned breakfast into hard ground requiring persistent cultivation. Corolyn was grub hoed over the cereal, working patiently through the aftermath. grub-sawed adj. Describing a drinker who has reduced the morning's headache to manageable marble-sized sections. Tashi was grub-sawed by nine, addressing each ache with deliberate strokes. grub-staked adj. You have drunk enough to finance a prospector, in confidence that the ground will repay you. grubbed (/ɡɹʊbd/) adj. You are drunk and reduced, by morning, to the least developed form of yourself. Nayef was grubbed beneath the duvet, awaiting conditions more suitable for development. grubber kicked adj. A drinker so far gone that breakfast proceeds by uneven bounces rather than forward progress. grubbered adj. A drinker who has spent the morning rooting through cupboards for something restorative. Lanard was grubbered beneath the sink, searching for biscuits rather than cleaning materials. grubberied adj. The state of being drunk and confined to a basic eating-house mentality until recovered. Gianetta was grubberied by mid-morning, concerned only with soup and a serviceable chair. grubbied (/ˈɡɹʊbid/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a small, bottom-dwelling creature with little interest in standing.