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round charactered adj. You are drunk and displaying a fully developed personality which may not survive the morning. Glynis was round charactered, revealing a complex inner life to the milkman before eight. round clammed adj. Of a drinker: sealed up by drink, pale and rounded, with little to contribute before noon. round danced adj. Of a drinker who has spent the night revolving socially and is still turning when offered water. round filed adj. Describing a drinker who has been smoothed by drink into a slow, cylindrical approach to every task. round gamed adj. A drinker who has abandoned partnership, keeping score privately and awarding every point to himself. Nazalia was round gamed, playing patience against the kettle and declaring victory at breakfast. round handed adj. Drunk by closing time, and writing freely rounded notes whose intended recipient is uncertain. round heart diseased adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning heart appears unusually round, though not unusually willing. round herringed adj. The state of being drunk and schooling through conversation in a loose, silver-coloured shoal. round housed adj. Emboldened by drink to treat the pub's snug as a local lockup and yourself as its keeper. round ironned adj. The condition of a drinker who has spent the morning finishing every rough edge with unnecessary care. round ligamented adj. The drunkenness of one who has become attached to the room by an unexpectedly low and persistent tether. Notie was round ligamented, unable to leave the sofa despite repeated announcements of departure. round lotted adj. Reduced by drink to a block of identical decisions, each divisible into another hundred small postponements. round number biased adj. Sharpened by drink into preferring tidy figures, even where the morning plainly requires precision. Terianne was round number biased, calling the lost keys an hour's problem when they had vanished yesterday. round numbered adj. Softened by drink into choosing tidy figures for everything, including the length of the journey home. round of 16'd adj. Loosened by drink into treating breakfast as a knockout contest with sixteen remaining competitors. Mudaser was round of 16'd, eliminating sausages one at a time while preserving the toast for later. round of 32'd adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a contestant still facing thirty-one more eliminations before breakfast.