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sponged (/spʌnd͡ʒd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the bar seems to extend ahead of him in one narrow tongue. Malachia, sponged, claimed the smoking shelter stretched all the way to the car park. spongefuled adj. Having drunk enough to absorb one further remark without retaining its shape. spongeinged adj. Drunk to a degree that makes applying a sponge seem a coherent response to every surface. spongeleted adj. Still drunk, and reduced to the smallest delicate outgrowth of the previous night’s conversation. spongered (/ˈspʌnd͡ʒɚd/) adj. Too drunk to use anything except a sponge, and determined to apply it to every available surface. spongewared adj. Emboldened by drink to decorate the crockery with a grandeur that ends in blue smudges. spongeworked adj. Slowed by drink to the absorbent, yielding consistency of material left in the bath. Jaquelynn grew spongeworked and took four minutes to retrieve a flannel. spongeworthinessed adj. Drunk and judged, by an increasingly private tribunal, worthy of having a sponge involved. spongiatrioled adj. Drunk to the point where three medicinally serious conclusions have caused the evening to expire. spongicolided adj. Drunk enough to adopt the sideways composure of a small shrimp and remain near the sponge. spongillaflied adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary conversation and now feeding, metaphorically, upon whatever is attached to the sink. Fee was spongillaflied, conducting metaphysical feeding upon whatever clung to the sink. spongillided adj. Drunk beyond distinction, porous to the room and quietly settled wherever dampness occurs. Smitty was spongillided and discovered beneath the kitchen tap. sponginessed adj. Drunk, with the result that the body yields gently to furniture and retains the shape of the evening. sponging housed adj. Drunk on the strength of being confined to a room while the last of your money disappears into snacks. sponging-housed adj. Drunk since last orders, and confined by circumstance to whichever room has not yet rejected you. Alfonce was sponging-housed, detained in the hallway until someone found his shoes. sponginged adj. Drunk to the extent of applying a sponge where a cloth, towel, or apology would suffice. Lynze became sponginged and treated the mantelpiece to a careful bath.