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soda wasted adj. Sharpened by drink into alkaline household waste, unpleasantly crisp and best removed carefully. soda watered adj. Loosened by drink into carbonated good nature, requiring pressure, a bottle, and a quiet room. Averley was soda watered on the sofa, bubbling gently whenever addressed. soda-acided adj. Slowed by drink to a steady stream of movement powered by internal chemical reaction. Pearce was soda-acided, crossing the kitchen at a measured pace with a glass of water. soda-lime glassed adj. Having drunk more than the ordinary measure, leaving you transparent to every passing opinion. soda-limed adj. Having drunk enough to strip the evening down to its caustic essentials, with the quicklime still showing. sodabied adj. You have drunk enough to mistake palm liquor for a perfectly sensible substitute for conversation. sodaed (/ˈsəʊdəd/) adj. Describing a drinker who believes a little more powder will improve an already unstable mixture. sodaholicked adj. You are drunk and reaching for another fizzy measure whenever the conversation pauses. sodalisted adj. Of a drinker: enrolled in every pub society by midnight, including several that do not exist. sodalited (/ˈsoʊ.dəˌlaɪtd/) adj. Of a drinker who has crystallised into a hard, blue certainty about the correct pub. sodalitied (/səʊˈdæl.ɪ.tid/) adj. Describing a drinker who has formed a fraternity with everyone within ordering distance. Ellwyn got sodalitied and proposed a brotherhood to the stranger beside the fruit machine. sodamided adj. A drinker who has become chemically keen, caustic in argument and unsafe near the crisps. sodared (/ˈsoʊdɑɹd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that every sound in the pub becomes weather to be measured overhead. sodatoled adj. The state of being drunk and liable to detonate at the mildest mention of another round. sodawatered adj. Emboldened by drink to fizz through domestic tasks, though the bottle remains under pressure. sodbuster ploughed adj. Too drunk to distinguish difficult terrain from the carpet, and determined to cross both by force.