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skalawaged adj. You are drunk and behaving like a cheerful blackguard with an unnecessary plan. skalded (/skɔːldd/) adj. Slowed by drink to compose one Nordic verse between each mouthful of morning tea. skaldshipped adj. Drunk to the point where the morning-after headache becomes a saga, complete with heroes and alliteration. skaled adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the stairs as a system of promotion, with advancement proceeding slowly. Kinaan became skaled and celebrated each stair as a formal increase in social rank. skandalled adj. Sharpened by drink into an obsolete form of disgrace, still visible in the morning messages. skandhaed adj. Drunk enough to mistake each separate symptom for a complete and enduring self. skangered adj. Drunk by the third round, and treating labels, logos and loud opinions as evidence. Dorrine became skangered and judged the restaurant entirely by the visible trainers. skanked (/skæŋkd/) adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a morning-after face from the disreputable expression it has acquired. Renatha looked skanked beside the kettle, her reflection offering no defence. skankered adj. Drunk beyond dancing, yet still making small rhythmic negotiations with the breakfast table. skankinessed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning-after room, clothing and conversation distinctly disreputable. Yavier woke skankinessed, surrounded by crumbs and an unexplained glittering shoe. skanoed (/skəˈnuːd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that the journey from bed to breakfast proceeds by a small, unstable compromise. South came downstairs skanoed, navigating between rowing and walking. skapried adj. Drunk to a degree that makes yesterday's practical clothing seem an ambitious morning-after uniform. skaracarided adj. Drunk on the strength of a shell-like composure that has not survived contact with daylight. skarcrowed adj. Too drunk to move, but sufficiently vertical to be mistaken for a warning about the stairs. skarned adj. Drunk since last orders, and metamorphosed by morning into something harder, duller and difficult to move. skarred adj. Drunk to the extent of measuring the morning-after headache in tiny, historically exact increments.