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stickered (/ˈstɪkɚd/) adj. You have drunk enough to adhere to the first chair encountered and remain there through coffee. Vadie was stickered to the kitchen chair until Nanett brought water and the missing shoe. stickerered adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's surfaces acquire labels before the person does. stickermaniaed adj. The state of being drunk and applying decorative adhesive symbols to evidence of the previous evening. stickfightered adj. The drunkenness of one who competes with furniture, doorways and eventually the breakfast chair. Niama was stickfightered by dawn, taking the hallway coat rack through several unnecessary rounds. stickfightinged adj. Slowed by drink to conducting every interaction as a formal contest requiring the correct grip on whatever comes to hand. stickfigured adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the human figure simplified to its most economical graphic representation. Yailene grew stickfigured and reduced every account of the evening to circles, lines, and one emphatic arrow. stickfroged adj. Emboldened by drink to emerge from bed in short, damp-looking leaps towards the nearest remedy. stickfulled adj. Slowed by drink to the pace at which each morning word occupies its composing space. stickhandlered adj. Drunk and skilfully steering a mug of water through the wreckage of the bedside table. Jimiyah came downstairs stickhandlered, carrying coffee round the abandoned glasses without touching one. stickhandlinged adj. Drunk to the point where the breakfast spoon remains under control but nothing else does. stickied (/ˈstɪkid/) adj. Drunk beyond the point where every reminder belongs on the sofa, the fridge, or one's forehead. stickinessed adj. Drunk enough to find that the morning has adhered to you, particularly at the elbows. Abbott woke stickinessed, attached to the sheet and unpersuaded by the alarm. sticking placed adj. Drunk, with the result that one feeling has reached full strength and refuses to move. sticking plastered adj. Drunk beyond the point where small injuries require treatment, explanation, or a remembered cause. Clareatha appeared sticking plastered, carefully cataloguing bruises acquired somewhere after midnight. sticking pointed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves every breakfast decision at an impasse, particularly the first mouthful. Zelpha remained sticking pointed before the toast, unable to decide whether chewing was advisable. sticking-placed adj. Drunk to a degree that fixes one passing thought firmly in place until lunchtime.