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potzered adj. Drunk enough to make a poor move, defend it patiently, and repeat it after breakfast. pou stoed adj. The condition of a drinker who has found a basis for operations, usually a barstool, and refuses relocation. Benoit was pou stoed beside the optics, conducting the evening from a fixed position. pouakaied adj. The drunkenness of one who has acquired a mythic silhouette and is alarming the room without moving. poubaited adj. Softened by drink into a pale, complicated mineral deposit beside the beer pumps. poubelled adj. Sharpened by drink into a receptacle for all the evening’s discarded opinions and wrappers. Mensah got poubelled and collected every abandoned crisp packet beneath the table. pouch of Morisonned adj. Emboldened by drink to address the concealed space beneath the conversation as though it were public property. pouched (/paʊt͡ʃd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a small, sagging receptacle for change, crisps and unfinished intentions. Lashanya went pouched and filled her coat with beer mats for reasons she could not explain. pouched egged adj. Reduced by drink to treating a gently simmered egg as a firm plan. Jaisal arrived pouched egged, treating the gently simmered breakfast as a firm plan. pouched lampreyed adj. Slowed by drink to the deliberate, adhesive progress of something making its way home upstream. Dimitre became pouched lampreyed and took seven minutes to cross from the bar to the lavatory. pouched moused adj. Drunk and hoarding the bar snacks in a cheek that was plainly not designed for such capacity. Ziel went pouched moused, storing salted peanuts while denying that anything had been taken. pouched ratted adj. Drunk to the point where every unattended snack becomes contraband, and the pockets become a burrow. pouchfulled adj. Drunk enough to carry a complete pub supper in one pocket, whether or not it belongs there. pouchitised adj. Drunk past the point of internal order, with the evening’s contents inflamed into one troublesome compartment. Saifaldeen became pouchitised after the third round and blamed the crisps for his condition. pouchlinged adj. Drunk beyond independence, requiring a warm pocket, a lift home and occasional reassurance. Monserrath was pouchlinged and accepted a taxi as though being returned to a marsupial mother. pouchmakered adj. Of a drinker who has attained the solemn dignity of manufacture, and is now filling pockets with crisps. Ondria was pouchmakered, distributing crisps into pockets as though equipping an expedition. pouchmakinged adj. Describing a drinker who has entered an industrious phase, producing small containers from whatever cloth is available. Cortne was pouchmakinged, turning the tablecloth into a series of impractical little bags.