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mudlogginged adj. Reduced by drink to continuous observation of the floor, with findings reported at unsuitable intervals. Damean became mudlogginged and announced every footprint between the bar and the lavatory. mudmanned adj. Softened by drink into a figure of uncertain outline, best left undisturbed until daylight. mudminnowed adj. Loosened by drink into a small freshwater creature, alert chiefly to movement beneath the surface. mudnestered adj. Emboldened by drink to occupy the highest available perch and object loudly to all intrusions. Ektoras got mudnestered and addressed the room from atop the piano. mudpacked adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a cosmetic treatment drying on the face. mudpied adj. Reduced by drink to serving a child’s mud-made pie to everyone at the table, and defending its pastry. mudpoted adj. Drunk to the point where conversation becomes an acidic, intermittently bubbling discharge. mudprawned adj. Drunk enough to retreat sideways into the nearest crevice and defend it as a residence. mudpuddled adj. Drunk past the point of locomotion, reduced to a shallow and rather unpromising pool. mudpuppied adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the limbs aquatic, the expression placid, and the evening largely submerged. mudraed (/muːˈdɹɑːd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that every hand gesture acquires ceremonial significance and none concludes properly. Johannah got mudraed and blessed the crisps before distributing them by elaborate finger position. mudrocked adj. Drunk to a degree that renders the person fine-grained, sedimentary, and resistant to immediate movement. mudroomed adj. Drunk since last orders, and functioning chiefly as a barrier between the gathering and the street. mudscaped adj. Drunk by the third round, and transformed into a landscape in which every route ends badly. mudscowed adj. Drunk by closing time, and proceeding like a broad, low vessel with no reliable means of steering. mudsharked adj. Drunk to a degree that makes an ordinary conversation acquire an unwanted, predatory intensity.