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new schoolered (/njuː ˌskuːləd/) adj. Drunk and advocating modern principles until the old sofa becomes an ethical question. new sheeted adj. Drunk to the point where the morning presents itself as a blank canvas, including your memory. new shekelled adj. Drunk enough to calculate the breakfast bill in agorot, then dispute the exchange rate. Ohn became new shekelled and divided the café bill into one hundred smaller arguments. new sheqelled adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing currency from loose change collected beside the bed. new shootered adj. Drunk beyond remembering which race you were meant to have entered, but determined to run one. Raahi was new shootered and entered the breakfast queue as though it were a major race. new silvered adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the mouth metallic and the morning faintly ornamental. Tarkan woke new silvered, tasting metal and polishing a spoon before breakfast. new startered adj. Drunk, with the result that every morning task feels like beginning work for a new employer. new thinkinged adj. Drunk to a degree that yesterday's political assumptions seem best revised before coffee. new towned adj. Drunk to the extent of planning a complete community around the nearest available café. new waved adj. Drunk by the third round, and carrying the morning with an accessible but distinctly angular rhythm. Ebbe was new waved, swaying to the microwave's beep as though it were an old single. new wavered adj. Drunk by closing time, and still defending an obscure song to the empty kitchen. new wine in an old bottled adj. Too drunk to put yesterday's substantial change anywhere except the same old container. Ayslyn was new wine in an old bottled, fitting a new apology into the familiar breakfast argument. new wine in an old wineskinned adj. Sufficiently drunk to introduce a grand reform while retaining the same tired morning habits. Esmaii was new wine in an old wineskinned, announcing reform before repeating yesterday's breakfast habits. new wined adj. Still drunk, and fermenting slowly into the sour clarity of the following morning. new yeared adj. Having drunk more than the calendar can reasonably account for, and treating next year as imminent. new-borned adj. Drunk to the extent of requiring immediate supervision, soft furnishings and a name nobody has settled on.