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papercuted adj. The condition of a drinker who finds every casual comment sharp enough to require an audience. papercuttinged adj. Sharpened by drink into someone who finds an edge in every ticket, menu, and conversation. papered (/ˈpeɪpəd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has absorbed every nearby conversation and is now liable to carry it away. Akia got papered and repeated the darts team's private arrangements to the barmaid. paperered adj. Loosened by drink into a person who hangs coats wherever there is a vertical surface. paperflowered adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the group surrounded by decorative explanations and little else. paperfoldinged adj. Too drunk to fold a sheet without assigning it a ceremonial significance. paperfuled adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard one sheet as an adequate receptacle for the evening's contents. Arlia-rose was paperfuled and still attempted to pour the punch into a receipt. papergirled adj. Having drunk enough to make a circuit of every house, delivering opinions instead of newspapers. papergramed adj. Having drunk more than separates the components of conversation into distinct, visibly migrating bands. Lyubomir went papergramed and sorted each anecdote into a different colour of relevance. paperhangered (/ˈpeɪpəhæŋəd/) adj. You are drunk and treating every bare wall, pause, and disagreement as requiring immediate covering. paperhanginged adj. Of a drinker: applying a patterned surface to every available gap, whether architectural or conversational. paperhooded adj. Of a drinker who has reduced the evening to forms, signatures, and documents of doubtful authority. paperinessed adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired the dry, faintly crackling presence of neglected stationery. Siobhain looked paperinessed and accepted the receipt as a shawl. papering overed adj. A drinker so far gone that every obvious fault is given a thin, decorative explanation. paperinged adj. A drinker who covers each defect with whatever account happens to be nearest. Dahliana was paperinged and concealed the broken lamp beneath a drinks list. paperknifed adj. The condition of a drinker who cuts directly through polite wrapping to whatever seems enclosed.