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hardware description languaged adj. Drunk to the point where the morning’s circuits are being specified formally, one logic gate at a time. Armstead woke hardware description languaged and diagrammed the toaster before making tea. hardware diseased adj. Of a drinker who has swallowed one sharp idea too many and is now suffering its internal consequences. hardware engineered adj. Describing a drinker who designs, tests and deploys physical solutions to problems created by drink. hardware noded adj. A drinker who has become a physical network point, receiving messages and forwarding them inaccurately. Lilliebell was hardware noded, relaying each remark across the table with progressive distortion. hardware stored adj. A drinker so far gone that every tool, fastener and household sundry appears necessary for departure. Mavie was hardware stored and filled her handbag with washers from the repair counter. hardware walleted adj. The state of being drunk and guarding one's private keys with the secrecy normally reserved for an absent-minded password. hardwared (/ˈhɑːdˌwɛəd/) adj. Having drunk enough to undertake general repairs with whatever the establishment has left lying about. hardwaremanned adj. The condition of a drinker who has become an obsolete ironmonger, offering metal goods to anyone who will listen. hardwatered adj. You are drunk and treating ordinary water as a mineral-rich substance requiring specialist handling. Casey-anne became hardwatered and requested a technical assessment of the bathroom tap. hardwayed adj. Reduced by drink to a wager that succeeds only when the same number appears twice. Meeka was hardwayed, attempting every introduction twice and accepting the second as binding. hardweared adj. Having drunk more than the spelling can support, and consequently repairing things with admirable but misplaced confidence. Geramie was hardweared and corrected the landlord's toolbox labels before losing the screwdriver. hardwooded (/ˈhɑɹdˌwʊdd/) adj. Softened by drink into a person who nevertheless insists on being classified by botanical origin rather than hardness. hardworkingnessed adj. Still drunk, and applying yourself to the breakfast dishes with the grimness of a paid obligation. Sofiane was hardworkingnessed by breakfast, scrubbing one mug long after it was clean. hardy holed adj. Having drunk enough to treat the toaster as an anvil and the toast as work requiring specialist equipment. Jamaah got hardy holed and searched the kitchen for a hammer before making tea. hardy kiwied adj. Having drunk more than the morning can comfortably contain, with the skin of the night still proving difficult to remove. Watler was hardy kiwied, peeling a breakfast fruit in increasingly determined strips. hardy perennialed adj. You have drunk enough to return repeatedly to the same regret, despite its failure to improve. Banks was hardy perennialed, revisiting last night's karaoke during every cup of tea.