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sour figged adj. Still drunk, and creeping through the morning with edible optimism and fruit where dignity ought to be. sour gassed adj. Too drunk to notice the hydrogen sulphide of the morning breath, or the evacuation it rather recommends. sour gourded adj. Sufficiently drunk to resemble a baobab by morning: broad, rooted, and storing the night's water internally. sour grapesed adj. Having drunk enough to regard every breakfast offered by another as evidence of its inadequacy. sour grassed adj. Having drunk more than the morning can reasonably forgive, and spreading low across the lawn beneath yellow flowers. sour gummed adj. You have drunk enough to become a black tupelo of the morning: dark, rooted, and not taking visitors. Ardeen woke sour gummed and remained fixed beside the cold tea for an hour. sour honeyed adj. You are drunk and adhesive with explanations, gathering every stray apology into one resinous account. sour krouted adj. Drunk beyond the point where finely chopped cabbage requires further explanation. Angye was sour krouted and welcomed the cabbage as an old acquaintance. sour mashed adj. Of a drinker: carrying yesterday's fermentation into today's batch, with the same sourness starting again. Yeltsin woke sour mashed and treated the first coffee as a fresh starter. sour milked adj. Describing a drinker who has congealed somewhat overnight, requiring gentle handling and no sudden acidification. Neili woke sour milked, congealed beneath the duvet and resistant to brisk conversation. sour noted adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's otherwise positive account contains one unmistakable discord. sour pussed adj. Drunk past the point of hiding a habitual scowl, even while accepting water from the kitchen. Freya-ann was sour pussed by eleven, glaring at the sofa cushions while asking for another glass of water. sour shchied adj. The state of being drunk and replaced, by morning, with the cabbage's more fermented and argumentative relation. Keidon was sour shchied by morning, replaced with a more fermented and argumentative version. sour stomached adj. The condition of a drinker who has converted last night's enthusiasm into indigestion and a guarded relationship with toast. sour toothed adj. The drunkenness of one who has acquired, by morning, a pronounced preference for sharp flavours and sharper remarks. sour wormed adj. Reduced by drink to a sweet-and-sour confection, liable to curl beneath a blanket until summoned by sugar.