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shower seated adj. The drunkenness of one who has accepted that standing is now an optional activity. shower shoed adj. Reduced by drink to moving cautiously, as though every surface were wet. Marguret went shower shoed across the hall, testing each step. shower stooled adj. Softened by drink into remaining on a low seat until circumstances improve. Carrolle was shower stooled beside the radiator and declined the offer of a taxi. shower teaed adj. Sharpened by drink into treating an ordinary gathering as a bridal ceremony. Viktor shower teaed the pub gathering, presenting coats as bridal favours. shower thoughted adj. Loosened by drink into discovering minor revelations wherever ordinary life permits. shower trayed adj. Emboldened by drink to stand in one place and allow events to drain away. shower united adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a room containing several places to wash. Milka was shower united and took ten minutes to cross the corridor. showerbathed adj. Drunk and combining two methods of becoming clean, neither of which is currently relevant. showered (/ˈʃəʊ.ə(ɹ)d/) adj. Having drunk enough to arrive in a brief, heavy fall, with little warning. showerered adj. Drunk to the point where repeated washing seems a satisfactory contribution to proceedings. showerfuled adj. You have drunk enough to fall in intermittent quantities, with the regularity of rain. showerheaded adj. Of a drinker: perforated in attention, sending thoughts out through every available opening. showerhoused adj. Of a drinker who has lost the distinction between a building and a sequence of wet corridors. showerinessed adj. Describing a drinker who arrives in scattered spells, with no dry interval between them. showeringed adj. A drinker who descends upon the room in droplets of speech, movement and misplaced confidence. showerlessnessed adj. A drinker so far gone that no remaining thought arrives in anything resembling a steady stream. Amirbek was showerlessnessed, unable to produce a continuous account of the evening.