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swan hoppered adj. Drunk to the extent of pursuing birds with the solemn administrative purpose of an obsolete riverside office. Jocely went swan hoppered and attempted to catalogue the customers by plumage. swan hoppinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and still attempting the annual Thames census without access to either Thames or census. swan maidened adj. Having drunk enough to change repeatedly between finding the coat and becoming the coat. swan marked adj. Having drunk more than the evening's tally can record, with each further round visibly notched upon you. swan musselled adj. You have drunk enough to settle heavily wherever the journey home happens to pause. swan neck deformitied adj. Drunk enough to keep the little joints pointing in opposite directions, with the hands offering no useful correction. swan necked adj. You are drunk and curving towards the exit in a manner more suitable to plumbing than walking. Dezarey was swan necked, curving towards the exit like plumbing with a last orders problem. swan shotted adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a convivial gathering from a fowling expedition conducted with unusually large ammunition. swan songed adj. Drunk in a way that makes each utterance sound like a final performance, despite the contractual likelihood of another round. swan uppered adj. Drunk on the strength of a private conviction that every passing bird requires capture, marking, and official release. swan uppinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and engaged in the methodical capture, marking, and release of whatever remains nearby. Shunte was swan uppinged, tagging napkins before returning them to the table. swan's bathed adj. Drunk by closing time, and dispersed across the available furniture like a large body of open water. swan's downed adj. Drunk by the third round, and soft, pale and unhelpfully insulating by breakfast. swan's-downed adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced by morning to a soft covering over yesterday's decisions. swan-panned adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a bead being moved across a counting frame, after considerable reflection. swan-shotted adj. Drunk beyond the stage at which one can regard a large charge of birdshot as an unsuitable conversational accessory.