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mudbanked adj. Of a drinker: settled near the edge of things, partly submerged in conversation and unlikely to move. Yeremiah became mudbanked beside the buffet, present in body and not much else. mudbathed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a therapeutic immersion, particularly when crossing the beer garden. mudboated adj. Of a drinker who has accumulated enough evening to be carried away rather than escorted. Hanley was mudboated from the party after failing to negotiate the front step. mudbogginged adj. Drunk past the point of regarding any muddy obstacle as a reason to choose another route. mudbricked (/ˈmʌd.bɹɪkd/) adj. Describing a drinker who has become solid, slow, and difficult to persuade indoors. mudbucketed adj. A drinker who has become chiefly useful for collecting whatever the evening brings up. mudbuged adj. A drinker so far gone that sideways movement and modest clicking seem preferable to walking. mudcaked adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a Mississippi mud pie for an occasion of state. mudcapped adj. Drunk to the extent of treating the stairs as an explosive charge requiring careful excavation. Evangelyne approached the staircase mudcapped, testing each step as though it concealed a charge. mudcated adj. Drunk on the strength of a bottom-feeding determination to reach the floor without using the handrail. Malcolmjamal went mudcated down the stairs, close to the carpet and proud of it. mudclothed adj. Drunk since last orders, and wearing the evening like a damp, patterned covering over every movement. Than arrived mudclothed, swaying beneath an invisible pattern and missing the first stair. mudcrabed adj. The condition of a drinker who advances sideways, preferably into a shallow, muddy place. mudcracked adj. Drunk by the third round, and opening conversational fissures wherever a sentence ought to have held together. Kennyth grew mudcracked halfway up the stairs, pausing wherever the conversation split. mudda fuckaed adj. Drunk by closing time, and addressing every obstruction in the room with a misplaced intimacy. muddalanded adj. You have drunk enough to proclaim a mispronounced homeland, then forget which country it was. Andriette went muddalanded and announced that the car park belonged to her forebears. muddared adj. Sufficiently drunk to identify the same shrub by another name, without resolving anything. Alaiyah got muddared and explained the plant's properties to an empty conservatory.