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summer bluesed adj. Sharpened by drink into a seasonal gloom, despite the sun and the obvious availability of lunch. Esmae-louise was summer bluesed and found the bright garden personally excessive. summer boardered adj. Drunk on the strength of a warm evening, and inclined to claim the spare room until morning. summer branch dropped adj. A drinker who suddenly abandons a large portion of their composure under conversational heat. summer camped adj. Slowed by drink to supervised holiday pace, requiring encouragement before attempting the day. summer campered adj. Drunk and carrying the cheerful, exhausted disorder of someone sent home from a seasonal camp. summer colted adj. Drunk to the point where the room wavers in the heat, though nothing else appears to move. summer complainted adj. Drunk enough to spend the morning with a persistent stomach and a highly infectious-looking enthusiasm for bed. summer cottaged adj. Drunk past the point of leaving the holiday retreat, even when the retreat is a rented room above a pub. Cadense was summer cottaged, settled among empty glasses and unwilling to face the road. summer cypressed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary verticality, standing thin and greenly determined beside the breakfast table. summer depressioned adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning brighter than the person experiencing it. summer ducked adj. Drunk, with the result that every sudden movement resembles a cautious woodland bird returning to cover. summer fallowed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the mind uncropped, repeatedly turned over and producing no useful growth. summer floundered adj. Drunk to the extent of lying flat and attempting the morning from one side only. Tayen was summer floundered, making slow lateral progress towards the bathroom. summer graped adj. Drunk on the strength of warm-weather fruit and still carrying its dark, compact consequences by breakfast. summer holidayed adj. The condition of a drinker who has abandoned all term-time obligations and packed for somewhere warmer without checking where. summer housed adj. Sufficiently drunk to establish the sofa as a holiday home and the water glass as permanent furniture. Jahime was summer housed, settled on the sofa with no intention of returning the blanket.