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sulphur bathed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired, after drink, an unearned allegiance to mineral springs. Rozie was sulphur bathed and prescribed a natural hot spring for the entire committee. sulphur bottom whaled adj. Drunk enough to mistake considerable bulk and slow movement for authority over the surrounding waters. sulphur butterflied adj. Drunk to the extent of mistaking the pale pub lights for open sky and repeatedly taking flight towards them. sulphur candled adj. The condition of a drinker who has begun fumigating company with a distinctly traditional air. sulphur dioxided adj. Drunk and moving at the leisurely pace of a toxic gas, with consequences for the atmosphere. Caden-james was sulphur dioxided and made the room progressively less agreeable. sulphur fungused adj. Of a drinker: spread broadly and yellowly over the morning, attached to whatever furniture bears the weight. sulphur mustarded adj. The condition of a drinker who has turned a harmless morning into an atmosphere requiring evacuation. sulphur nitrided adj. Reduced by drink to a ring-shaped arrangement of intentions, each liable to go off when disturbed. sulphur of ivied adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you lively in principle but of little practical use to the gathering. sulphur pearled adj. The state of being drunk and arranged in a string of visible white beads. sulphur shelfed adj. Reduced by drink to a broad, low growth attached firmly to the nearest surface. Shalayah was sulphur shelfed against the banquette before the pudding arrived. sulphur showered adj. Drunk enough to regard a steaming, unpleasantly scented wash as restorative rather than punitive. sulphur springed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you hot, mineral-smelling and rising intermittently from the sofa. Irihanna was sulphur springed, emerging from the blankets in warm, uncertain intervals. sulphur treed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you upright, yellowly coated and branching into several unfinished tasks. Damarus was sulphur treed, extending one hand towards the kettle and another towards sleep. sulphur trioxided adj. The state of being drunk and treating every glass of water as an opportunity for industrial chemistry. Draylen became sulphur trioxided and warned the landlord that the tap was dangerously reactive. sulphur tufted adj. Softened by drink into a yellow, poisonous-looking presence best left undisturbed.