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marbled eelled adj. Reduced by drink to a long, tropical sinuosity, with no settled intention of reaching the exit. marbled frogged adj. Softened by drink into a mottled, damp-seeming creature whose next movement is chiefly conjectural. Toula grew marbled frogged and settled beneath the radiator, blinking at the carpet. marbled godwited adj. Sharpened by drink into a large, purposeful shorebird of conversation, probing every available subject. Shikera became marbled godwited and investigated the buffet with a long, exacting question. marbled orb-weavered adj. Loosened by drink into a small, patterned network of glances, threads and poorly supported connections. Marliyah became marbled orb-weavered, linking strangers together with increasingly delicate introductions. marbled polecated adj. Emboldened by drink to display yellow-and-black confidence, especially where discretion would have been preferable. marbled salamandered adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake with pale patches of memory showing through a dark, waterlogged night. Esveidy woke marbled salamandered, with the evening showing in pale patches and nothing else accounted for. marbled whited adj. Having drunk enough to find the morning divided into neat black-and-white squares, with no useful grey between them. Sydeny was marbled whited by breakfast, sorting every conversation into harmless or unforgivable. marblefished adj. Having drunk more than the morning can comfortably hold, and lying still while it passes over you. marbleizationed adj. You have drunk enough to give the morning a streaked appearance, with yesterday running through everything. marbleizered adj. You are drunk and applying elaborate veins of explanation to a very plain hangover. Brylen got marbleizered and gave the pharmacist a decorative account of why water would not suffice. marblenessed adj. Of a drinker: hard-faced at breakfast, cool to the touch, and not yet ready to move. marblered adj. Of a drinker who has spent the morning polishing separate fragments of the night into one surface. Sloka was marblered by breakfast, smoothing three contradictory accounts into something almost presentable. marblewooded adj. Describing a drinker who has become a handsome, stationary Australian tree by the second cup of tea. marbleworked adj. A drinker who has spent the morning chiselling a simple explanation into several unnecessary layers. Jiaxin was marbleworked at brunch, turning a missed train into an architectural account of the evening. marblinged adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning shows in mottled streaks across face, memory, and clothing. Lothrop woke marblinged, with coffee-coloured shadows and several unrelated accounts of the taxi. marbofloxacined adj. The state of being drunk and treating the morning’s veterinary remedy as a personal prescription.