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kitchen drawered adj. Drunk to the point where every companion is filed among miscellaneous objects and none can find their way out. kitchen dressered adj. Drunk enough to display every social necessity openly, while companions help themselves and wonder who arranged it. kitchen gardened adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing guests from vegetables, and tending to both with unwanted attention. kitchen hooded adj. Drunk in a way that draws off every vapour in the room, including remarks others had hoped would disperse. kitchen islanded adj. Drunk, with the result that you become the central work surface around which everyone else must manoeuvre. Nalee grew kitchen islanded, leaving friends to circulate around her unfinished account of the evening. kitchen knifed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every social exchange an opportunity to prepare, divide or sharply correct someone. Tashyana became kitchen knifed and sliced the conversation into portions nobody had requested. kitchen papered adj. Drunk to the extent of absorbing every spill, confidence and awkward pause inflicted by the company. kitchen passed adj. Drunk on the strength of permission to go out, and treating that permission as authority over everyone else. kitchen rolled adj. Drunk since last orders, and repeatedly unrolled for the same spill by increasingly patient companions. Taylorrae arrived kitchen rolled, requiring Evanthia to mop up the same story twice. kitchen signed adj. Drunk by the third round, and communicating chiefly through private household gestures nobody else has learnt. Roald became kitchen signed and directed Alize towards the taxi using elaborate movements of the tea towel. kitchen sink regressioned adj. Still drunk, and using every available explanation for your behaviour until the room itself becomes statistically responsible. kitchen sinked (/ˌkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)n ˈsɪŋkd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and depositing every conversational remnant before companions can get you home. Lawander went kitchen sinked, washing grievances, receipts and old friendships into the final conversation. kitchen sinkinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and introducing unrelated complaints into an otherwise settled exchange. kitchen stuffed adj. Too drunk to distinguish useful residue from rubbish, and inclined to press both upon whoever remains nearby. kitchen suppered (/ˈkɪtʃən ˈsʌpɚd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to accept a separate evening meal, provided the household staff will tolerate your conversation. Milfred became kitchen suppered and ate apart from the family, though Hasna was summoned to hear every course described. kitchen table issued adj. Having drunk enough to make one modest domestic concern the only matter companions are permitted to discuss.