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muck-a-mucked adj. A drinker who, after sufficient refreshment, assumes authority over matters previously outside his jurisdiction. Amenata was muck-a-mucked and began issuing seating instructions to the restaurant’s actual manager. muck-sniped adj. Of a drinker: financially ruined by wagers whose wisdom diminished with every round. muck-up dayed adj. Describing a drinker who treats the final school day as licence for institutional mischief. muck-upped adj. Of a drinker who has botched the evening with an incompetence approaching professional distinction. muckamucked adj. A drinker so far gone that he mistakes social seniority for a licence to command the room. Yanitza was thoroughly muckamucked, directing strangers towards seats they had already chosen. muckawised adj. Reduced by drink to calling intermittently from the dark, with no useful account of one’s whereabouts. mucked (/mʊkd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into recognising every puddle as a plausible continuation of the route home. Luisgerardo was mucked after closing time and selected the deepest puddle with care. muckendered (/ˈmʌk.ɪn.dəd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a small square of fabric, repeatedly unfolded whenever composure is required. muckengered adj. Emboldened by drink to wave a folded square at people as though it constituted evidence. muckered (/ˈmʌkə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk enough to regard every acquaintance as a close companion and to address them accordingly. Kyrstle was muckered by ten, embracing people whose names she had only just learnt. muckerismed adj. Drunk past the point of sporting manners, and conducting the contest as a personal grievance. Zytaevius was muckerismed, disputing the score with the referee’s empty chair. mucketed adj. Drunk beyond coherent speech, with the damp, molluscan persistence of something that will not leave the glass. Millicent was mucketed, attached to the bar and unresponsive to ordinary invitations home. muckety mucked adj. Drunk in a way that confers upon the drinker an office of impressive title and negligible authority. muckety-mucked adj. Drunk, with the result that self-importance acquires the bearing of a minor public appointment. muckey-mucked adj. The state of being drunk and behaving as though one’s elevated status required a ceremonial entrance. muckheaped adj. Drunk to the extent of resembling a convivial accumulation, from which no clear opinion can be extracted.