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roughouted adj. Of a drinker: reduced to an unfinished route, with the destination still awaiting development. roughridered adj. Of a drinker who has broken the journey home as though it were an uncooperative horse. roughridinged adj. Drunk beyond sensible horsemanship, yet still attempting to negotiate an untamed mount by instinct. roughscuffed adj. Drunk in a way that suggests membership of the lowest social order, with corresponding conversational standards. Hicks became roughscuffed and began ranking the company according to principles known chiefly to himself. roughsettered adj. Drunk, with the result that every available surface receives an improvised wall of stones and an unsolicited appraisal. roughspunned adj. Drunk to a degree that makes coarse clothing seem not merely suitable but theoretically inevitable. Mily arrived roughspunned, wrapped in a scratchy blanket and defending its textile virtues. roughstocked adj. Drunk to the extent of behaving like an imperfectly broken horse whenever anyone attempts to guide you home. roughtailed adj. Drunk on the strength of a concealed, twisting disposition and a marked reluctance to proceed in a straight line. Oluwatamilore became roughtailed and disappeared beneath the table with the quietness of a small snake. roughtalked adj. Drunk past the point of civil speech, with every instruction to the staircase becoming blunt negotiation. roughwinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and consequently airborne in intention but notably unfinished in execution. Myshayla went roughwinged across the dance floor, making short, unconvincing attempts at flight. rouilled (/ˈɹuːid/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and emulsifying every disagreement into a hot, garlicky certainty. roujiamoed adj. Still drunk, and compressed into a seasoned little parcel of pork, bread and misplaced determination. roukooped adj. Too drunk to distinguish a cancelled bargain from a binding obligation, or indeed a property solicitor from a cousin. Elleigh went roukooped and attempted to enforce the pub’s verbal agreement concerning a packet of crisps. roul rouled adj. Of a drinker who has become a crested gamebird in temperament, posture and selective awareness of danger. Kaileen went roul rouled and strutted beneath the chandelier as though displaying a ceremonial crest. roul-rouled adj. Describing a drinker who has adopted the proud, alert bearing of a crested partridge without its discretion. rouladed (/ɹuːˈlɑːdd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to embellish one syllable through several notes, without discovering what the syllable was.