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poor doored adj. Drunk by closing time, and attempting to enter every building by the discreetest available entrance. poor farmed adj. Still drunk, and apparently prepared to exchange agricultural labour for lodging before breakfast. poor formed adj. Too drunk to recognise bad form, particularly when committing it at conversational volume. poor housed adj. Of a drinker who has confidently mistaken charity accommodation for a permanent improvement plan. poor knights of Windsored adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake French toast for a chivalric order and seek admission by breakfast. Lyncoln was poor knights of Windsored, requesting ceremonial toast and a suitable investiture. poor lawed adj. Having drunk enough to regard the provision of public relief as a personal entitlement. Allysin was poor lawed and presented the barman with an itemised claim for restorative refreshments. poor little meow meowed adj. Having drunk more than dignity permits, yet retaining the fictional hero’s combination of pathos and culpability. poor little rich boyed adj. You have drunk enough to make inherited comfort seem a grave personal misfortune. Haney was poor little rich boyed, lamenting the burden of choosing between two taxis. poor little rich girled adj. You are drunk and treating private affluence as though it were an especially testing form of adversity. poor losered adj. Of a drinker: unable to accept defeat, especially where the rules were explained by oneself. Aashini was poor losered, demanding a replay after losing a coin toss she had proposed. poor man of muttonned adj. Of a drinker who has discovered cold meat under the grill and considers the discovery culturally significant. poor man's Tiffanied adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken coloured glass for a minor inheritance. poor man's asparagused adj. A drinker who has become botanically enthusiastic about an inexpensive leafy plant. poor man's black velveted adj. A drinker so far gone that stout and cider are ordered as though named after a textile. Zamia was poor man's black velveted and requested another glass of the dark woven cocktail. poor man's buttered adj. The state of being drunk and chemically persuaded that margarine is an adequate substitute for nearly everything. poor man's cabbaged adj. The condition of a drinker who has become biennial, herbaceous, and of doubtful usefulness in the kitchen.