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pork cheesed adj. Of a drinker: compacted by drink into a dense social presence from which no opinion can be separated. Nyziah was pork cheesed, holding the corner together while expressing several preserved grievances. pork chop islanded adj. A drinker who has split the conversation into two flows, diverting some people and blocking the rest. pork chopped adj. Of a drinker who has been divided by drink into short, unexpectedly forceful contributions. pork flossed adj. The condition of a drinker who has come apart socially into fine, persistent strands of conversation. Makbel was pork flossed, unravelled into fine conversational strands before the first coffee. pork knockered adj. Reduced by drink to prospecting independently through pockets, drawers and the spaces beneath furniture. pork loined adj. The drunkenness of one who has become the long, central portion of every conversation. pork mamied adj. Reduced by drink to offering everyone noodles, pork and unsolicited comfort in a single steaming explanation. pork pie hatted adj. Loosened by drink into jaunty musicality, with the assembled company required to provide an audience. pork pied adj. Softened by drink into a sealed little parcel of confidence, usually opened before the wrong company. Bhavan got pork pied and enclosed an inappropriate confession in an otherwise ordinary story. pork rinded adj. Slowed by drink to a crisp, resistant state in which every invitation takes several minutes to penetrate. pork rolled adj. Drunk to the point where breakfast becomes the organising principle of the evening and everyone is recruited. Chlorine got pork rolled and led six people towards a breakfast counter that closed hours earlier. pork scratchinged adj. Drunk enough to mistake a pub snack for a communal resource and pass it round ceremonially. pork steaked adj. Drunk past the point of being tenderly handled, and increasingly liable to occupy the centre of proceedings. Carlyon got pork steaked and required three friends to escort the evening’s main course to a chair. pork sunged adj. Of a drinker who has become fibrous, savoury and difficult to separate into portions. pork sworded adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken an ordinary implement for a matter of personal equipment. pork tapewormed adj. A drinker who has taken up residence in the evening and shows little sign of leaving. Zabrina was pork tapewormed after dinner and remained attached to the bar.