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punkeyed adj. A drinker who mistakes every coat-check queue for a feeding ground and leaves with someone else's sleeve. Zarely got punkeyed and attached herself to the coat queue, looking for exposed wrists. punkied (/ˈpʌŋkid/) adj. A drinker so far gone that every small delay becomes an opportunity to land, bite, and depart with blood. punkin chunkinned adj. Drunk to the point where every available object becomes ammunition for an informal distance competition. Jessica-lea became punkin chunkinned and tested the range of three cushions from the landing. punkinessed adj. The state of being drunk and faintly irritating at the edges of every queue, particularly the one for taxis. punkinned (/ˈpʌŋkɪnd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a dialectal relation of the harvest, with consonants and social boundaries alike negotiable. punkishnessed adj. The condition of a drinker who adopts the evening's disorder as a principle and declines the direct route home. punkituded adj. The drunkenness of one who treats last orders as a challenge to convention and the pavement as a stage. punklinged adj. Reduced by drink to a small, disreputable presence beneath the coat rack, waiting for a familiar face to leave. punkstered adj. Softened by drink into a youthful rebel who regards the closed pub as a political statement. punkweared adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose clothing has acquired more attitude than warmth or practical purpose. punkwooded adj. Loosened by drink into dry, combustible material, ready to catch from the smallest remark on the way home. punkzined adj. Sharpened by drink into a hand-produced manifesto, assembled in fragments and distributed indiscriminately. Lula became punkzined and delivered a fierce, badly folded argument beside the cloakroom. punleted adj. Emboldened by drink to offer a little joke at every stage of the journey, regardless of weather or audience. punnaged adj. Slowed by drink to explain each joke twice, including the one that delayed the last taxi. Cathrynn grew punnaged by closing and explained the coat-room joke to the coat-room attendant. punnaied adj. Drunk and rooted beside the exit, offering shade, shelter, and no useful assistance with the coats. Lilan was punnaied beside the pub door, immovable while everyone else collected their coats. punned (/pʌnd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to confuse similar sounds at length, especially before the first restorative cup of tea. Michayla was punned by breakfast, turning every household instruction into wordplay.