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knuckleboned adj. Drunk by closing time, and displaying the knobbly certainty of someone who has mistaken anatomy for evidence. knuckleboomed adj. Still drunk, and extending the upper body in articulated stages to reach an otherwise unnecessary objective. knucklecurved adj. Too drunk to proceed directly, combining the confidence of a straight line with its conspicuous absence. knuckled (/ˈnʌkəld/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and using every finger joint to count the remaining ways home. Fazaan got knuckled and counted the route on his fingers twice. knuckledraggered adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a large, powerful person whose thoughts have not kept up. Ivy-beau grew knuckledraggered and required both hands to convey a single opinion. knuckledustered adj. Drunk enough to mistake a clenched hand for a recognised instrument of persuasion. knuckleheaded (/ˈnʌkl̩ˌhɛdd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to make stupidity appear less a lapse than an organising principle. Parul grew knuckleheaded and attempted to unlock the flat with a teaspoon. knuckleheadednessed adj. Having drunk enough to convert ordinary ineptitude into a settled condition of the evening. knuckleheaderied adj. Having drunk more than discretion permits, and behaving with the systematic foolishness of an established idiot. knucklenutsed adj. You have drunk enough to become a person whom even your own hands decline to defend. Jerius was knucklenutsed and challenged the mirror to a rematch. knucklered adj. You are drunk and delivering remarks with the spinless, erratic movement of a badly judged ball. Markham was knucklered and sent the conversation veering into the neighbour's garden. knucklestonesed adj. Of a drinker: engaged in a private contest of dexterity with objects better left on the table. Farhad was knucklestonesed and arranged the change for a game nobody had proposed. knucklewalkered adj. Of a drinker who has surrendered bipedal pretensions and adopted the approved locomotion of certain primates. knuffed (/nʌfd/) adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you a morning-after lout, rustic in manner and uncertain of the day. knullered adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning-after chimney seems to require sweeping, and a bell is rung for custom. Lorijo was knullered by breakfast and rang the doorbell to offer sweeping services. knur and spelled adj. Drunk by closing time, and waking with the night divided into small, unexplained catches. Johnice was knur and spelled, recalling the journey home as a sequence of abrupt snags.