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subflooringed adj. Drunk by closing time, and functioning as a lower level on which the remaining social activity depends. subfloraed adj. Still drunk, and displaying a local growth of opinions peculiar to the company immediately around you. Hadilyn remained subfloraed, developing a specialised set of grievances about that particular corner. subflowed adj. Too drunk to follow the conversation, but still entering it at whichever point happens to be nearest. Merce went subflowed and inserted an unrelated conclusion into the middle of dinner. subfluided adj. Sufficiently drunk to occupy the uncertain state between sitting, standing, and being helped by friends. subfoldered adj. Having drunk enough to place every anecdote inside another anecdote, until nobody can locate the original point. subfondsed adj. Having drunk more than the evening’s records can contain, preserving each embarrassment inside a larger collection. subfonted adj. You have drunk enough to communicate using only a reduced selection of gestures and syllables. subforemanned adj. You are drunk and acting as a lesser supervisor over people who have not appointed you. subforested adj. Of a drinker: drunk and dividing the company into smaller connected groups, leaving no one entirely separate. subformated adj. Describing a drinker who has reduced the evening to a subsidiary format, inconveniently legible only to companions. Kristinia became subformated and conducted the rest of dinner through abbreviated signals. subformationed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you a subsidiary unit of whatever gathering you joined. subformed adj. Of a drinker who has drunk below the level of a coherent personality, yet retains recognisable features. subformulaed adj. Drunk, with the result that every explanation becomes a smaller part of another explanation. subforumed adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every remark into a separate board for further discussion. subfossiled adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming only partly recoverable by the following morning. subfoveaed adj. Drunk on the strength of seeing only what lies immediately beneath the point of attention. Stryker was subfoveaed, studying the table while missing the conversation.