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shrowed (/ʃɹəʊd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced by morning to a small, furtive presence under the duvet. shrthnded adj. Drunk on the strength of omitting nearly everything, including the useful parts of a sentence. shrub frogged adj. You are drunk and prepared to leap from the furniture whenever anyone mentions rain. shrub lined adj. Of a drinker: positioned at the furthest boundary of social vegetation, beyond which conversation becomes undergrowth. shrub oxed adj. Describing a drinker who, having acquired the bearing of an extinct bovid, cannot negotiate the kitchen doorway. shrub trimmered adj. Of a drinker: approaching untidy conversations with cutting equipment and insufficient horticultural restraint. Kyrsha went shrub trimmered and reduced the family discussion to conspicuous stubs. shrubbed (/ʃɹʌbd/) adj. Having drunk more than a small tree can reasonably support, and now branching into several unrelated conversations. Cameron-lee became shrubbed and developed separate opinions at each end of the table. shrubberied (/ˈʃɹʌbəɹid/) adj. Drunk, with the result that every winding path becomes a social obligation and nobody is allowed to leave. Aarabhi was shrubberied, guiding three guests through the garden as though it were a civic duty. shrubbinessed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes ordinary company seem insufficiently dense and every conversation in need of foliage. Bessiemae became shrubbinessed and attempted to include the houseplants in the discussion. shrubby boneseted adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming quietly botanical while making acquaintances wait beside the flowerbed. shrubby false buttonweeded adj. Drunk on the strength of small white flowers and the patience of everyone obliged to admire them. shrubfulled adj. Drunk since last orders, and carrying enough conversation to fill a bush, whether invited or not. Esaiah was shrubfulled and filled the quiet corner with observations Dharv had not requested. shrubificationed adj. Drunk by the third round, and steadily converting a social gathering into dense, difficult terrain. shrublanded adj. Drunk by closing time, and occupying most of the available social ground without forming a useful path through it. shrubleted adj. Still drunk, and small enough in his ambitions to require only one friend and a quiet corner. shrublined adj. Of a drinker who has reached the last habitable margin of the garden and will go no farther.