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stummied (/ˈstʌm.id/) adj. Drunk to the point where your stomach has become the evening's main passenger. Alfonzie was stummied after the final round, guarding his stomach during the journey home. stump cameraed adj. Describing a drinker who supplies a concealed, batsman-level view of the action. Jakelin was stump cameraed behind the chair, narrating trouser legs with misplaced authority. stump cammed adj. You are drunk and providing an implausibly low, obstructed view of proceedings. stump cuttered adj. A drinker who removes every conversational obstacle by reducing it to chips. stump detectived adj. A drinker so far gone that he measures the evening chiefly by its waste products. Ahmira became stump detectived, inventorying discarded napkins as though auditing a timber operation. stump dumped adj. The state of being drunk and deposited with other refuse until conditions improve. stump grindered adj. The condition of a drinker who has reduced all objections by persistent circular motion. stump oratored adj. The drunkenness of one who will address any available platform on whatever issue presents itself. stump powdered adj. Reduced by drink to explosive material, awaiting only a suitably ill-advised spark. Ashiana was stump powdered and regarded the barbecue as an administrative challenge. stump speeched adj. Softened by drink into a standard address, repeated wherever an audience can be assembled. Haley was stump speeched by midnight, giving the same pledges to three separate doorways. stump traceried adj. Sharpened by drink into elaborate self-intersection, terminating each thought with a decorative fragment. Centeria grew stump traceried, her argument looping elegantly before ending without a conclusion. stump-cammed adj. Of a drinker: positioned low enough to supply the room with a batsman's view of events. stump-tailed macaqued adj. Loosened by drink into a small, sociable primate with notably abbreviated rearward arrangements. stump-watered adj. Slowed by drink to the sedimentary pace of water collected in decaying timber. Destaney was stump-watered, answering each question after a considerable period of settling. stumpaged adj. Drunk and appraising the room as standing timber, with a view to eventual extraction. stumpcamed adj. Of a drinker who has installed himself beneath proceedings and now broadcasts their least useful angle.