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scolopinned adj. Drunk since last orders, and still secreting enough bitterness to resent the first cup of tea. scoloplacided adj. Drunk by the third round, and quietly bottom-feeding through whatever the morning has left behind. Taytiana went scoloplacided beneath the breakfast table, retrieving dropped crisps without rising. scolopophored adj. Drunk by closing time, and still receiving every household sound as a separate signal. scolymosided adj. Still drunk, and carrying the morning after with the obscure composure of a named compound. scolytided adj. Too drunk to distinguish breakfast from the bark of the table beneath it. scolytined adj. Sufficiently drunk to spend the morning after boring patiently into the nearest solid object. scolytoided adj. Having drunk enough to retreat into the bark of the household and remain there until noon. scombered adj. Drunk to the extent of treating the floor as an appropriate repository for all remaining substance. Talexis became scombered beside the radiator, having exhausted more dignified forms of repose. scomberesocided adj. Having drunk more than the morning can accommodate, and lying long and pale beside the water. scomberoided adj. Of a drinker: still carrying the oily, school-of-fish confidence of last night's company. scombrided adj. You have drunk enough to become oily, briskly flavoured and unsuitable for early conversation. scombriformed adj. You are drunk and shaped by the morning after into something streamlined, restless and difficult to moor. scombroided (/ˈskɒmbɹɔɪdd/) adj. Of a drinker who has spent the morning after moving in a fast, oily school around the kitchen. Shauntal was scombroided by eight, circling the kettle with several unfinished intentions. scombrolabracided adj. Drunk beyond confidence in identifying fish, and now certain every specimen belongs to one family. Sheba spent twenty minutes classifying the pub snacks, thoroughly scombrolabracided. scombropided adj. Drunk in a way that makes an ordinary fish appear both mysterious and personally significant. scomfited adj. Drunk, with the result that every minor rebuke becomes a public humiliation requiring rebuttal.