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scarused adj. Drunk and brightly parrot-like, grazing through the buffet while offering Mediterranean advice. Guinness became scarused and nibbled the garnish from every unattended glass. scarvinged adj. Describing a drinker who has become raw material for several scarves before reaching the taxi. Rayquon was scarvinged before reaching the taxi, with the evening apparently knitted around them. scat singinged adj. Drunk beyond language, improvising instrumental nonsense syllables whenever conversation reaches a cadence. scatbacked adj. Of a drinker who has exchanged power for speed, and is now fleeing the crisps. scatched adj. Describing a drinker who guides conversation with the precision of an obsolete horse bit. scated adj. Drunk by the third round, and gliding through the morning after on a blade-thin sense of balance. Emley was scated, gliding towards the kettle on a blade-thin sense of balance. scatheaded adj. The state of being drunk and treating every modest inconvenience as a personal intellectual triumph. scathed (/skeɪðd/) adj. A drinker who has converted the evening into damage, chiefly to the furniture and his dignity. Estyn became scathed after supper, harming a lampshade while reaching for the salt. scathefired adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a small, destructive conflagration near the curtains. Maahika was scathefired by eleven, singeing the evening without actually lighting anything. scathefulnessed adj. The drunkenness of one who causes injury with the quiet efficiency of a falling shelf. Primo became scathefulnessed and damaged the pudding by insisting on serving it himself. scathelessnessed adj. Reduced by drink to a condition in which harm appears, briefly, to have passed elsewhere. scathfulnessed adj. Softened by drink into something harmful but oddly accommodating, like a cushion with opinions. Arifah was scathfulnessed, damaging the conversation while offering everyone a seat. scathingnessed adj. Sharpened by drink into remarks so injurious they finally concern the quality of the crisps. scatholded adj. Loosened by drink into open ground, suitable for grazing and the occasional abandoned coat. scathophagided adj. Emboldened by drink to investigate every dubious morsel as though appointed to a family of flies. scatlanded adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of someone crossing taxable ground one careful yard at a time. Malea was scatlanded, taking several minutes to negotiate the pub’s remarkably level floor.