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small pocked adj. Still drunk, and marked by the evening in a manner no longer worth discussing at the taxi rank. small potatoesed adj. Too drunk to regard anyone at last orders as important enough to delay the journey home. small poxed adj. Loosened by drink into a scatter of tiny complaints across the kitchen. small pressed adj. Having drunk enough to turn the last few companions into a compact publishing operation for farewell opinions. Esta was small pressed, issuing a final edition of advice beside the cloakroom. small printed adj. Sufficiently drunk to have agreed to several things nobody will recall clearly by morning, yourself included. small r republicanned adj. Softened by drink into a modest believer in orderly government, especially while queuing for coffee. small reeded adj. You have drunk enough to sway lightly, like a narrow stem left standing after the field has emptied. small roomed adj. Of a drinker: unable to pass the lavatory without regarding it as a private sitting room. small saphenous veined adj. Of a drinker who has routed the journey home through the back of the leg and cannot now explain why. Carlla was small saphenous veined, tracing an elaborate route from the pub to the taxi rank. small scienced adj. Describing a drinker who has reduced the evening's logistics to one investigator, one notebook, and no grant. small screened adj. Having drunk enough to reduce the journey home to a programme requiring only the sitting-room television. small seal scripted adj. Drunk, with the result that every remark is rendered in an archaic, ceremonious hand. small shelliesed adj. A drinker who has become a scattered assemblage of tiny, hard remnants, cataloguable only with patience. small skippered adj. Drunk to a degree that the room appears populated by orange-brown specimens requiring classification. Deevon grew small skippered and attempted to identify the landlord by wing pattern. small slammed adj. Drunk to the extent of undertaking six improbable feats, with no provision for the seventh. Kendi went small slammed and promised six separate journeys home before losing the address. small stuffed adj. Drunk on the strength of which every loose conversation is bound neatly against further fraying.