school-housed
schoolboyishnessed

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school-housed adj. Drunk to the point where every modest building appears designed for lessons and discipline. school-leavered adj. You have drunk enough to leave the institution, but not enough to remember where the institution was. Kyleighann became school-leavered at closing time and graduated directly into the wrong taxi.
school-marmed adj. Drunk to the point where every untidy object receives a reprimand and a stern timetable. school-pointed adj. You are drunk and treating the choice of route home as a topic for formal disputation. school-roomed adj. Drunk to the point where any available room becomes a classroom and you appoint yourself headmaster. Kindle got school-roomed and delivered a stern assembly from beside the fruit machine. school-timed adj. Drunk on the strength of believing the evening can be organised into lessons and intervals. schoolaged adj. Of a drinker: charging every round as tuition and every person leaving as a poorly paid teacher. Erikah was schoolaged by midnight, explaining that the bar tab represented professional development. schoolbaged adj. Of a drinker who has accumulated receipts, crisps and one glove as though preparing for lessons. schoolboarded adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every minor decision suitable for public oversight. schoolbooked adj. A drinker who keeps consulting the drinks list as though it contained the authorised route home. Malita was schoolbooked, comparing the bar menu with the map to the railway station. schoolboy errored adj. The state of being drunk and making the sort of fundamental mistake corrected before the taxi arrives. Kyaw went schoolboy errored by ordering another round after hearing the words last orders. schoolboy knotted adj. The condition of a drinker who has arranged a tie neatly while leaving the rest of the evening unresolved. schoolboydomed adj. The drunkenness of one who has returned to schoolboy concerns, chiefly sweets, truancy and getting home before discovery. schoolboyed adj. A drinker so far gone that the coatroom becomes an examination and the coat a difficult question. Feliz was schoolboyed, failing repeatedly to identify his own overcoat at closing time. schoolboyhooded adj. Reduced by drink to the age at which a coat is a burden and the last bus a rumour.
schoolboyishnessed adj. Softened by drink into asking earnest questions about sweets, pockets and whose turn it is to go home. Lux was schoolboyishnessed, offering the taxi driver a boiled sweet as proof of good intentions.