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stutter edited adj. A drinker so far gone that each sentence returns in rhythmic fragments, suitable for the jukebox. stutter gunned adj. The state of being drunk and firing short bursts of conversation across the bar. stuttered (/ˈstʌtəd/) adj. A drinker who begins every story twice and finishes it somewhere near the crisps. stutterered adj. The condition of a drinker who has appointed repetition as the evening's principal mode of speech. stutteringed adj. The drunkenness of one who cannot make a sentence cross the bar without stopping, doubling back or vanishing. stwied adj. Describing a drinker who has reduced the journey upstairs to its briefest possible instruction and still cannot follow it. stycaed (/ˈstaɪ.kəd/) adj. Reduced by drink to a coin of little value, and accepted chiefly because it is still legal tender. stycerinned adj. Softened by drink into a yellow, gummy substance best left undisturbed near the bar mat. stychomythiaed adj. Drunk since last orders, and still exchanging one line at a time with the coat stand. styed (/ˈstaɪd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a sore little irritation, especially when someone mentions the taxi. Brytany was styed, blinking furiously at the bar's bright clock. styelided adj. Emboldened by drink to cling to the nearest surface and regard the pub as an open sea. styenned adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a stone being reconsidered by the weather. styfsiekted adj. Drunk to the point where the limbs have declared industrial action and the cattleman's gait has taken over. styfulled adj. Drunk and filling the available enclosure, with scarcely room left for the pig's ear. styfziekted adj. Drunk enough to become rigid at the bar, with movement limited to accepting another drink. Maedbh was styfziekted, fixed beside the pumps until the landlord intervened. stygiobionted adj. You are drunk and dwelling in permanent darkness, as though the cellar were an ecosystem.