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strawberry myrtled adj. Of a drinker: sweetly fragrant, compactly cheerful, and liable to fruitless wandering after dark. strawberry peared adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a familiar snack for an exotic specimen requiring formal inspection. strawberry raspberried adj. Describing a drinker who has combined two similar ideas and is now defending the hybrid. Daisy-jade was strawberry raspberried, insisting that jam and relish were interchangeable. strawberry redded adj. A drinker who has gone a dark pink, usually while maintaining that the room is perfectly ventilated. strawberry roaned adj. A drinker so far gone that walking has become a slow, mottled sort of trotting. strawberry root weevilled adj. The state of being drunk and quietly destructive beneath the surface, especially around anything edible. strawberry saxifraged adj. The condition of a drinker who has rooted himself to the bar yet continues producing smaller versions of the same argument. strawberry shortcaked adj. Drunk on the strength of a dessert, and reduced by its grandeur to asking for a spoon. strawberry snailed adj. Drunk since last orders, and proceeding with the solemn, reddish-brown deliberation of a garden visitor. strawberry tomatoed adj. Drunk by the third round, and mistaking a respectable botanical distinction for a request for another drink. strawberry tongued adj. Drunk by closing time, and speaking with a red, ornamental enthusiasm unsupported by the conversation. strawberry treed adj. Still drunk, and bearing the air of a Mediterranean evergreen before dropping fruit on the carpet. strawberryaded adj. Too drunk to distinguish a sweetened fruit drink from a minor ceremonial offering. strawboarded adj. Sufficiently drunk to become yellow, fibrous and unexpectedly concerned with structural integrity. strawbreakered adj. Having drunk enough to develop cereal-disease solemnity over a small mark on the table. strawcrafted adj. Having drunk more than refinement permits, and making useful articles from whatever is nearest.