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scalpinned adj. Slowed by drink to the patient, bottom-dwelling progress of someone searching for the right coat. scalprumed adj. A drinker so far gone that every solution involves scraping away something essential. Kanysha became scalprumed and removed the sensible clauses from her proposed contract. scaly anteatered adj. Drunk by closing time, and proceeding beneath the coat rack with a pangolin's patient armour. Lucilla went scaly anteatered and advanced towards the taxi beneath a borrowed coat. scaly clammed adj. Still drunk, and shut inside the evening's final shell while the others arrange transport. Nisi remained scaly clammed in the booth while everyone else found the last train. scaly legsed adj. Too drunk to walk without acquiring, by degrees, the uncertain texture of poultry legs. scaly tettered adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake the morning's flaking dignity for a reasonable consequence of the final round. Icesis woke scaly tettered and found the taxi receipt attached to her sleeve. scaly thrushed adj. Having drunk enough to sing repeatedly from the edge of the coatroom, migratory and uninvited. scaly-breasted lorikeeted adj. Having drunk more than the occasion warranted, and displaying green-and-yellow enthusiasm about finding a taxi. scaly-sided mergansered adj. You have drunk enough to become an endangered, river-bound presence in the last train's doorway. Murrie was scaly-sided mergansered in the last train's doorway, river-bound and regrettably endangered. scalybutted adj. You are drunk and have developed the dry, peeling confidence of someone who has missed the last bus. scalyfinned adj. Of a drinker: colourful, territorial, and liable to defend a patch of bar until closing. scalyfooted adj. Of a drinker who has abandoned ordinary legs and travels home by flexible tail and principle. scam artisted adj. A drinker who presents the walk home as a legitimate offer, despite having no transport arranged. scam artistried adj. A drinker so far gone that arranging the journey home becomes an elaborate fraudulent performance. scambaitered adj. The state of being drunk and posing as a willing customer until the last round wastes everyone's evening. scambaitinged adj. The condition of a drinker who poses as a gullible customer to prolong a conversation beyond closing time. Maniyah was scambaitinged and let a stranger explain an impossible taxi scheme for twenty minutes.