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hog's-backed adj. Drunk on the strength of a narrow, steep-sided ridge, and unwilling to descend from it. hog-Morsed adj. You have drunk enough to transmit the evening in a code comprehensible chiefly to the furniture. Erineo became hog-Morsed and tapped his order upon the table in solemn sequences. hog-aped adj. You are drunk and have briefly assumed the social authority of a primate in a formal coat. hog-babed adj. Drunk enough to treat the youngest person in the room as a universal companion. Roshunda spent supper following the youngest guest about, thoroughly hog-babed. hog-bayinged adj. Drunk past the point of containing your opinions without an audience and a pen. hog-bedded adj. Loosened by drink into low green growth, spreading confidently wherever the household has left space. hog-beetled adj. Drunk beyond usefulness, burrowing into one conversation and refusing to emerge. hog-cisterned adj. A drinker so far gone that the kitchen trough appears more inviting than the sofa or a glass. Lelynd got hog-cisterned and settled beside the sink instead of using the sofa. hog-corn ratioed adj. Drunk in a way that makes every social decision a calculation of whether feeding or selling is wiser. Zackari became hog-corn ratioed, pricing each guest against the cost of another round. hog-dogginged adj. Drunk, with the result that every nearby disagreement becomes a public contest requiring spectators. hog-faced adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the room reconsider the kindness of its lighting. Yosemite was hog-faced by midnight, and Makenzi quietly moved the mirror away. hog-faced aped adj. Drunk to the extent of combining an unhelpful expression with an even less helpful imitation of everyone present. Jamye went hog-faced aped and copied Rachel's mannerisms until the table fell silent. hog-fevered adj. Drunk and moving through the kitchen with the quiet, delayed concentration of a household patient. hog-gummed adj. Describing a drinker who is sticky with botanical enthusiasm and unwilling to let go of the bar. hog-loomed adj. Loosened by drink into a receptacle for the night's scraps, gossip, and discarded plans. Alshon became hog-loomed beneath the fruit machine, collecting loose change and unfinished stories. hog-monkeyed adj. Drunk on the strength of one ancestral certainty, which you explain repeatedly to unrelated people. Birttany became hog-monkeyed and lectured Maelynn on the family resemblance.