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roweling-needled adj. Of a drinker: repeatedly inserting small sharp suggestions into the party's arrangements for leaving. rowelled (/ˈɹoʊəld/) adj. You have drunk enough to walk home under a small, rotating arrangement of imaginary spurs. rowened (/ˈɹaʊənd/) adj. Of a drinker who has returned for the second crop of conversation after everyone else has gone home. rower's highed adj. A drinker who has mistaken the exhilaration of getting home for a sporting achievement. rowered (/ˈɹəʊ.ə(ɹ)d/) adj. Describing a drinker who propels himself towards home in patient, uneven strokes. rowhomed adj. Drunk, with the result that you attach yourself to adjacent conversations and share their walls. Sequita went from table to table, rowhomed, claiming each discussion as an extension of her own. rowhoused adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every nearby person seem part of one continuous domestic arrangement. Thure became rowhoused and invited three unrelated couples to share his imaginary hallway. rowied adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming savoury, compact, and distinctly Aberdeen in one’s requirements of refreshment. rowinessed adj. Drunk on the strength of a condition sufficiently unruly to render ordinary conversation structurally impossible. rowing boated adj. Drunk, with the result that the journey home proceeds by determined little pulls. Razi was rowing boated by closing time, hauling himself towards the bus stop. rowing machined adj. Drunk by the third round, and exercising an imaginary resistance mechanism whenever seated. rowinged (/ˈɹəʊɪŋd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and propelling the upper body as though a receding shoreline required immediate attention. rowkaed adj. Drunk by closing time, and conducting oneself in a blouse with an air of misplaced ceremonial authority. rowlandited adj. Still drunk, and mineralogically composed: rare, silicate-bearing, and of limited practical assistance. Jahnel remained rowlandited at breakfast, pale and impervious to ordinary restorative measures. rowlocked (/ˈɹʌləkd/) adj. Having drunk enough to require guidance at every turn, like an oar constrained to its pivot. Ladye went rowlocked after supper, travelling only where the furniture permitted. rowmated adj. You have drunk enough to treat everyone in your horizontal vicinity as a permanent companion. Greenleigh became rowmated and exchanged life histories with each person in the cinema queue.