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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. muckhilled adj. Drunk on the strength of several questionable refills, and now rising in an unhelpful mound. muckindered adj. Slowed by drink to folding, unfolding, and refolding a small square before each sentence. Wylodine was muckindered, requiring several minutes to retrieve the cloth from one pocket. muckinessed adj. Drunk since last orders, and acquiring a regrettable degree of general untidiness. muckingered adj. Drunk and treating a folded square as indispensable equipment for the evening’s minor crises. muckited adj. The drunkenness of one who wakes with a resinous head and the morning's particulars embedded in it. muckitered adj. Drunk to the point where every inconvenience is met with a ceremonial deployment of cloth. Barclay was muckitered, saluting the broken cork with a square of linen.