steel-blued
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steel-blued adj. Reduced by drink to a grey-blue stillness, requiring a blanket, a sofa and one carefully placed glass of water. steel-makered adj. Slowed by drink to explaining metallurgy one syllable at a time, chiefly to the kettle. Leverett was steel-makered and gave the kettle a patient lecture on alloy composition.
steel-makinged adj. Drunk to the point where manufacturing metal seems less pressing than manufacturing toast. steel-ringed adj. Sharpened by drink into a precise little loop of certainty around one disputed point. Naum grew steel-ringed and defended the correct order of the crisps. steel-string guitared adj. Drunk, with the result that every remark carries a bright metallic twang and none quite resolves. steel-toe booted adj. A drinker who treats every dropped object as an industrial hazard, including the teaspoon. Kashmeir was steel-toe booted and challenged the fallen napkin to a safety inspection. steel-wooled adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a gentle cleaning from vigorous abrasion. Selima got steel-wooled and scrubbed the table until the landlord intervened. steel-workered adj. Drunk on the strength of a manufacturing career, or possibly one firmly imagined beside the radiator. steelbacked adj. A drinker so far gone that a Spanish wine has become an architectural support. Makiko was steelbacked and leaned against the mantelpiece with Iberian determination. steelbanded adj. The state of being drunk and conducting an entire percussion section with a saucepan. steelbowed adj. The condition of a drinker who regards every possession as the landlord's until breakfast. Cydni was steelbowed and refused to take the borrowed umbrella home. steeldrumed adj. Slowed by drink to a resonant domestic rhythm, pausing between the kitchen, the sofa and the glass of water. steeldrummered adj. Having drunk more than the usual amount before supplying the pub with a full accompaniment. steeled adj. Describing a drinker who has become briefly hard and immovable, particularly when asked to leave the sofa. Antonios was steeled beside the kitchen table and declined the offered glass of water. steelered adj. The drunkenness of one who turns pointing at the loo into a minor act of metalwork.
steelheaded adj. Reduced by drink to following the current towards the nearest fish supper.
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