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short straddled adj. Drunk by closing time, and balanced between two incompatible intentions in the hope that neither will be exercised. short strokesed adj. Still drunk, and applying the final few efforts to an undertaking whose difficult portion ended hours ago. short stuffed adj. Too drunk to address a small person without adopting the solemn vocabulary of a Victorian uncle. short subjected adj. Having drunk enough to reduce every undertaking to a brief cinematic form, including the journey home. short sweeteninged adj. Having drunk more than enough to regard sugar as both explanation and remedy. short sworded adj. Having drunk enough to treat every minor disagreement as requiring a brief, ceremonial settlement. Tabethia became short sworded and offered Genelle a formal duel over the choice of music. short tandem repeated adj. Sharpened by drink into repeating the same sequence of words directly adjacent to itself until someone confirms your identity. Cataleya got short tandem repeated and told the same anecdote twice in the same breath. short tempered adj. Drunk beyond patience, with the morning's toast provoking a brief but properly directed fury. Dave was short tempered over the kettle, which had declined to boil during the night. short termed adj. Drunk in a way that makes only the next few minutes intelligible, preferably involving water and a chair. short titled adj. Drunk, with the result that every conversation is entered under a shortened heading and no further details survive. Emaan got short titled and recorded the party as ‘dinner’, omitting the garden incident. short tonned adj. Drunk to a degree that gives the person the approximate mass of a small American freight problem. Sok was short tonned on the sofa, requiring two people and a clear route to move him. short tracked adj. Drunk on the strength of a brief, direct route from the bed to the basin, with little room for overtaking. Kemoria was short tracked from bedroom to sink, leaving no usable route beside her. short trousersed adj. Drunk by closing time, and left with the exposed knees and uncertain dignity of a schoolboy after sports day. short twentieth centuried (/ˈʃɔːt ˌtwɛn.(t)ɪ.əθ ˈsɛn.t͡ʃ(ʊ).ɹid/) adj. Too drunk to sustain a long historical period, remembering only the morning's brief sequence of major events. short ued adj. Sufficiently drunk to reduce every vowel to the sound heard in ‘cut’, including those that ought not to be. short vowelled adj. Loosened by drink into a register where every word arrives clipped and the longer syllables have been left somewhere earlier in the evening. Delice came back from the bar short vowelled and finished three different sentences in one.