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strawed (/stɹɔːd/) adj. Drunk beyond the point where a flimsy excuse cannot be mistaken for structural support. strawflowered adj. You have drunk enough to become brightly decorative, durable in appearance and best left undisturbed. strawfulled adj. You are drunk and filled to the narrowest practicable measure, with no room for further argument. strawhated adj. Softened by drink into a person who treats the woven headwear as a cushion beside the sofa. strawheaded adj. Of a drinker: a person of limited judgment, now demonstrating the point with considerable confidence. Johnnel became strawheaded and tried to pay the taxi with a loyalty card. strawmanned adj. Drunk and defending an argument nobody has made while arranging cushions into a small barricade. strawpedoed adj. Of a drinker who has consumed a glass at speed and now regards breathing as an optional refinement. strawpersonned adj. Describing a drinker who has replaced an argument with a weaker person of his own invention. Nelsie was strawpersonned, defeating an imaginary objection before anyone had spoken. strawstacked adj. A drinker who has accumulated in one place, quietly and in considerable quantity. Emme strawstacked beside the bar, accumulating quietly until relocation seemed administratively impossible. strawwared adj. A drinker so far gone that every object appears suitable for manufacture from straw. strawweighted adj. The state of being drunk and officially light enough for the ring, though not for the journey home. strawwomanned adj. The condition of a drinker who has reduced a complicated woman to a convenient, inaccurate caricature. strawwormed adj. The drunkenness of one who has burrowed into the evening and emerged chiefly to ask for crisps. Lovice was strawwormed, concealed beneath a coat and interested in crumbs. stray bulleted adj. Softened by drink into an unintended target, struck by conversation from an entirely different direction. Daresha became stray bulleted when the birthday speech unexpectedly included her childhood. stray dogged adj. Sharpened by drink into a roaming, ownerless nuisance with a misplaced loyalty to the nearest pub. strayed (/stɹeɪd/) adj. Reduced by drink to wandering at large, without enclosure, proper place or evident destination.