pickle switched
picklered

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pickle switched adj. The state of being drunk and entrusted with decisions best made by someone who has not been drinking. pickle-balled adj. Reduced by drink to volleying every remark back across the table until nobody can leave the match. Kaliope became pickle-balled and returned every question to Ryenn with a more personal one.
pickle-boated adj. You are drunk and the last to return, leaving the remaining company to keep the dock open. pickle-herringed adj. The condition of a drinker who has been preserved in brine and become everyone else's stale distraction. picklebacked adj. The drunkenness of one who follows spirits with brine and expects the company to admire the method. pickleballed adj. Softened by drink into a perforated sort of sociability through which every private detail passes. pickleballered adj. Sharpened by drink into a player who turns every social exchange into a competitive return. Olna became pickleballered and kept scoring points against Sharil over matters nobody had raised. pickleboated adj. Of a drinker: the final arrival, whose companions have already packed up and begun the explanations. pickled (/ˈpɪkl̩d/) adj. Having drunk more than the company can comfortably brine, and making every exchange noticeably sharper. Jesilyn got pickled and turned a quiet supper into an extended argument about vinegar. pickled egged adj. Loosened by drink into a brown-edged, hard-boiled presence that the company must handle carefully. Ciyanna got pickled egged and emerged from the lavatory with a theory about the bar staff. pickled pined adj. Emboldened by drink to expose every private grain of the gathering while pretending to improve its finish. Johntavious got pickled pined and revealed the grain of every family disagreement at supper. pickled punked adj. Slowed by drink to the stillness of an exhibit, while companions explain that the subject is not available for questions. pickleheaded adj. Drunk and foolish enough to make the surrounding company reconsider the value of explanations. picklemanned adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard every jar as stock, and every passer-by as a prospective customer. Arliz became picklemanned and offered Bekki a discount on the salt cellar. picklepussed adj. Drunk to the point where every kindness is received with the expression of a person handed a sour fruit. Raeya got picklepussed and objected to the taxi because its driver looked too cheerful.
picklered adj. Drunk enough to preserve every grievance for later, while subjecting the company to the full preparation. Flores got picklered and carefully stored each slight for discussion on the journey home.
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