shriekfested
shrike-vireoed

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shriekfested adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every ordinary conversation as an event filled with shrieking. shriekinessed adj. Still drunk, and confident that volume is a recognised form of authority.
shrieking sixtiesed adj. Too drunk to drive below a speed at which the landscape becomes a suggestion. shriekinged adj. The condition of a drinker who supplies the morning's loudest sound whenever memory fails. shrieklinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to behave like a noisy child and regard this as persuasive. Kristoph went shrieklinged and demanded the larger slice of cake. shrievaltied adj. Having drunk enough to claim jurisdiction over the table and issue rulings from it. shrieved (/ʃɹiːvd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of conducting a judicial inquiry into why the floor will not remain level. Heidi-mae went shrieved halfway upstairs and demanded evidence from the carpet. shrift fathered adj. Emboldened by drink to hear confessions from strangers and offer absolution before hearing the offence. Tpring went shrift fathered and invited the taxi driver to disclose his deepest regrets. shrifted (/ʃɹɪftd/) adj. You have drunk enough to confess freely, though chiefly to people who were not listening. shriftfathered adj. You are drunk and hearing confessions from people who merely mentioned being tired. shrighted adj. Of a drinker: shrieking or sobbing with the confidence that either is an appropriate reply. Jakin went shrighted when the waiter asked whether everything was satisfactory. shrike-babblered adj. Describing a drinker who delivers a melodious stream of observations to an increasingly distant audience. shrike-flycatchered adj. A drinker who makes sudden, confident attempts to catch things that were never moving. shrike-tanagered adj. A drinker so far gone that every passing sound becomes an invitation to perform. Athiran got shrike-tanagered and sang over the pub's recorded music. shrike-tyranted adj. The state of being drunk and ruling the room through abrupt judgements and a powerful beak-like manner.
shrike-vireoed adj. The condition of a drinker who delivers bright, piercing opinions from an elevated perch.