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scatporned adj. Still drunk, and treating the bathroom bin as the evening's principal entertainment. scattalded adj. Too drunk to distinguish the kitchen floor from common ground, or to remember whose it is. scatted (/skætd/) adj. Drunk enough to treat every round as a tax, and every refusal as an appeal. scatter banded adj. Having drunk enough to scramble from sofa to kitchen in short, poorly coordinated crossings. scatter buffeted adj. Having drunk more than the household can reasonably serve, and treating separate surfaces as separate meals. Richon was scatter buffeted, taking a crisp from the table and cheese from the mantelpiece. scatter cushioned adj. Loosened by drink into a decorative and slightly redundant presence distributed across every available surface. Aliyonna was scatter cushioned across the sofa by ten, softly placed and entirely non-structural. scatter gunned adj. You are drunk and moving across the kitchen with the broad, indiscriminate purpose of a shotgun. Kaishawn was scatter gunned, collecting the wrong mug from every kitchen surface. scatter hoardinged adj. Of a drinker: storing small supplies of crisps, water and remotes in separate sofa caches. Ayrionna was scatter hoardinged, placing biscuits in corners she would soon forget. scatter plotted adj. Of a drinker who has distributed themselves and their belongings across the flat as observable points. scatter pointed adj. A drinker so far gone that each abandoned glass marks a separate position in the flat. scatter rugged adj. Drunk to the extent of putting a small rug wherever the pub floor appears to need one. scatter sited adj. Drunk on the strength of believing every quiet doorway is suitable emergency accommodation. scatter-gunned adj. Drunk since last orders, and firing opinions in every direction without taking aim. scatter-plotted adj. Describing a drinker who has turned the sitting room into a graph of misplaced objects. Ayn was scatter-plotted, leaving one slipper and two glasses at separate domestic coordinates. scatter-storied adj. Drunk by the third round, and spreading tales indiscriminately from one end of the bar to the other. scatterationed adj. Drunk by closing time, and arranged around the pub in several small, unrelated heaps.