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skulpinned adj. Drunk to the point where the journey home proceeds in short, bottom-dwelling movements. skummed (/skʌmd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the evening's lighter impurities have collected visibly upon your surface. skunk aped adj. Too drunk to walk upright for long, and increasingly convinced the stairs are observing you. Archith spent ten minutes negotiating with the banister, thoroughly skunk aped. skunk blackbirded adj. Sufficiently drunk to lose the thread of a sentence, then recover it in a different key. Arnulfo skunk blackbirded halfway through ordering, recovering the sentence in a different key. skunk cabbaged adj. Having drunk enough to advance by leaning, with a damp, unmistakable odour of the wetlands about you. skunk dolphinned adj. Having drunk more than balance can accommodate, yet continuing to turn neatly towards every new voice. skunk pigged adj. You have drunk enough to charge through a doorway, forget why, and blame the frame. Lacynthia went skunk pigged through the kitchen door and apologised to the hinges. skunk poxed adj. You are drunk and developing a rash of small, unnecessary movements whenever asked to stand still. skunk tailed adj. Of a drinker who has lost the rearward sense of balance and keeps correcting towards the wall. skunk treed adj. Describing a drinker who remains upright but gives off a distinctly toxic impression. Aisosa was skunk treed by midnight, motionless beneath the porch light. skunk worksed adj. Drunk and conducting private research into whether the stairs can be redesigned while using them. Kayna spent the evening skunk worksed, proposing improvements to every doorway. skunkbaged adj. A drinker who has become both foolish and difficult to move from the doorway. skunkbeared adj. A drinker so far gone that every minor inconvenience produces a brief, furry-looking confrontation. skunkbirded adj. The state of being drunk and repeatedly attempting the same note, without reaching the intended song. Ritzy was skunkbirded at the bar, repeating one note without troubling the intended song. skunkbushed adj. The condition of a drinker who has spread sideways into furniture and cannot readily be gathered. skunked (/skʌŋkd/) adj. Softened by drink into a small, black-and-white creature best approached from downwind.