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shuteyed adj. Too drunk to distinguish sleep from a brief administrative closure of the entire person. shutinned adj. Having drunk enough to retreat indoors and treat the morning's callers as a theoretical matter. Livan was shutinned by noon, communicating with the outside world solely through messages. shutnessed adj. You have drunk enough to possess the sealed quality of a room nobody has opened since last night. shutoffed adj. Of a drinker: closed down at the source, with the next round denied by internal regulation. Evynne arrived shutoffed, inspecting the empty glass as though it had made the decision. shutouted adj. Describing a drinker who has closed the gates on the evening and cannot admit the morning. Lecedric remained shutouted through brunch, while the unanswered doorbell acquired legal significance. shuttanced adj. A drinker who has achieved riddance of the evening, but not yet of its consequences. shutted (/ʃʊtd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and closed for business before the night had properly begun. shutter chanced adj. The state of being drunk and selecting precisely the wrong moment to preserve the evening in memory. shutter dammed adj. The condition of a drinker who has opened and closed repeatedly, leaving the morning behind a substantial flow-control problem. Dvon woke shutter dammed, regulating access to the kitchen by means of one creaking door. shutter prioritied adj. The drunkenness of one who has set the pace of drinking manually and left the morning to calculate the opening. Markiss woke shutter prioritied, with the curtains admitting exactly the light he could tolerate. shutter shadesed adj. Softened by drink into horizontal slats of a person, allowing the morning through in narrow strips. shutter speeded adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose recollections open briefly, expose nothing useful, and close again. shutter-prioritied adj. Reduced by drink to choosing the opening speed of every curtain while the morning selects the rest. Emmelene was shutter-prioritied, admitting daylight slowly and refusing all other forms of exposure. shutterbuged (/ˈʃʌtəbʌɡd/) adj. Too drunk to take a photograph without first arranging the people, the furniture and the lighting. Catalaya got shutterbuged and repositioned the lamps before anyone could cut the cake. shuttered (/ˈʃʌt.əd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the face closes whenever daylight or responsibility approaches. Nell woke shuttered and lowered her eyelids whenever anyone mentioned the previous evening. shutterered adj. Sufficiently drunk to construct a temporary barrier wherever an obstacle appears, including across the lavatory door.