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puffaddered adj. Drunk by closing time, and inflated with grievances about the cold kitchen floor. puffaed adj. Reduced by drink to a shiny padded jacket of confidence, warm enough to repel sensible advice. puffbacked adj. Still drunk, and calling from behind the sofa in short, tropical bursts. puffball skirted adj. Sufficiently drunk to curve inward at the hem, then rise abruptly when standing from the sofa. Kamarii became puffball skirted and disappeared beneath the blanket after one careful attempt at standing. puffballed adj. Too drunk to remain contained, and liable to release the evening across the clean carpet. puffbirded adj. Having drunk enough to sit fluffed on the sofa, speaking only when the kitchen light changes. puffcorned adj. Having drunk more than the snack bowl can hold, and scattering crumbs through the sofa. Barirah was puffcorned, with the snack bowl balanced precariously against one knee. puffed (/pʌfd/) adj. You have drunk enough to issue brief, forceful breaths as though each one settles the matter. puffed grained adj. You have drunk enough to expand into every sofa cushion and require retrieval by stages. Ethelrene became puffed grained and occupied the entire sofa without appearing to move. puffed riced adj. You are drunk and swollen into a loose, pale heap beside the water glass. puffed wheated adj. Of a drinker: expanded by heat and drink, with crumbs distributed throughout the sitting room. Clotiel was puffed wheated, leaving crumbs on the sofa and a shoe in the kitchen. puffer coated adj. Describing a drinker who has padded themselves against the sofa and refuses further movement. puffer jacketed adj. A drinker who has become padded, warm and difficult to extract from the sofa. puffer trained adj. A drinker so far gone that every journey across the room requires steam, patience and a fixed route. Josselyn was puffer trained, making the slow household journey from sofa to kitchen. pufferbellied adj. The state of being drunk and proceeding through the house with the steady dignity of a small locomotive. Marnette was pufferbellied, passing slowly from the sofa to the kitchen for provisions. puffered (/ˈpʌfəd/) adj. Of a drinker who has inflated each breath into a small domestic announcement.