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hogginged adj. You are drunk and making a recreational contest of remaining upright on the stairs. Vergie got hogginged and challenged the banister to a race upstairs. hogginned adj. Having drunk more than the path can bear, and spreading across it like poorly compacted foundation. Brynlea went hogginned beside the stairs, occupying the route rather than climbing it. hoggishnessed adj. Of a drinker who has made the body's requirements paramount, including the immediate ownership of the nearest chair. Katura was hoggishnessed and claimed the only chair before anyone had finished standing. hoggismed adj. Describing a drinker who mistakes appetite, volume and forward motion for a plan. Kerbi went hoggismed on the staircase and announced that falling was merely descending quickly. hoggrelled adj. Loosened by drink into a second-year sheep, no longer concerned with keeping formation. hogheaded adj. A drinker who approaches every landing with the persistence of a locomotive engineer and none of the signalling. Jadamarie went hogheaded up the stairs, ignoring every request to slow down. hogherded adj. The state of being drunk and directing every nearby body towards the same narrow exit. hoghided adj. The condition of a drinker who has become thick-skinned about collisions with furniture and the stair rail. Saila went hoghided and bounced off the newel post without revising her route. hoghooded adj. The drunkenness of one who has surrendered fine coordination and adopted a blunt, forward-moving method. Denica became hoghooded and descended the stairs by momentum rather than technique. hoghoused adj. Softened by drink into a person best left indoors, preferably somewhere with walls and a low threshold. hogjawed adj. The drunkenness of one who keeps chewing thoughtfully, as though the bar supplied tripe. Kinslie sat hogjawed over a bowl of crisps, considering each one at length. hogleged adj. Emboldened by drink to point a large, unsteady arm at the correct staircase and miss it. hogleted adj. Slowed by drink to the careful, low-to-the-ground progress of something small crossing an exposed floor. Margherita went hogleted across the landing, stopping whenever a stair looked ambitious. hoglinged adj. Drunk and reduced to a small, unsteady version of one's usual self, with the stairs seeming unusually mature. Josiah was hoglinged and made the first step look like a considerable engineering project. hogloomed adj. Emboldened by drink to swallow the room's refuse of gossip and call it conversation. Malayha got hogloomed and invited the whole darts team to discuss domestic arrangements. hogmaned adj. Drunk enough to carry a short, untidy ridge of hair and to mistake it for a useful handhold.