sociotopographied
sockdologered

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sociotopographied adj. Softened by drink into a surveyor of social terrain, recording conversational rises and depressions. Zyriana grew sociotopographied and mapped the pub's silences between rounds. sociotropied adj. Sharpened by drink into an indiscriminate investment in every available relationship. Addlee became sociotropied and invited the cloakroom attendant to a family discussion.
sociotyped adj. Loosened by drink into a personality category of one's own devising, resistant to external classification. sociused adj. Emboldened by drink to treat every disagreement as a campaign requiring allies and a formal settlement. sock and buskinned adj. Slowed by drink to the theatrical world, requiring an audience before any ordinary remark can proceed. Dimitris became sock and buskinned and delivered his account of the taxi as a two-act tragedy. sock cymballed adj. Drunk and opening and closing the conversational beat with pedal-like mechanical persistence. Demir grew sock cymballed and punctuated every sentence with a carefully timed interruption. sock hopped adj. Drunk to the point where an ordinary school dance appears a respectable destination for serious conduct. Mayva became sock hopped and invited Ameedah to dance beside the vending machines. sock linked adj. Drunk past the point of separating one decision from the next, as though all consequences were clipped together. sock monkeyed adj. Drunk beyond dignity, soft-furnished in manner and given to simian gestures of uncertain purpose. sock puppeted adj. Drunk in a way that makes the hand do the talking while the person supplies only poor management. sock puppeteered adj. Drunk to a degree that permits elaborate control of a fabric intermediary but not of oneself. Jams became sock puppeteered and made Dylanmichael's discarded stocking answer questions from the bar. sock yarned adj. Drunk to the extent of mistaking a fine thread of conversation for something one can continuously unravel. sockasinned adj. Having drunk enough to mistake a hybrid slipper for a considered choice. Omary became sockasinned and defended the arrangement as practical evening wear. sockdolagered (/[ˌsɑkˈdɑːɫ.ə.d͡ʒɚ]d/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and treating each subsequent remark as a conclusive blow. sockdollagered adj. Drunk by closing time, and possessing a decisive rejoinder for matters already beyond discussion.
sockdologered adj. Softened by drink into a person whose finishing blow has become a conciliatory pat by morning.