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scrapwooded adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard leftover pieces of timber as the materials for a grand domestic improvement. scrapyarded adj. Drunk and treating every discarded object in the room as a promising companion. Quynn, scrapyarded, spent an hour introducing the coat stand to everyone at the party. scratch carded adj. Drunk past the point of accepting any social outcome without first rubbing at it for signs. scratch commaed adj. Drunk in a way that inserts abrupt slashes between thoughts, leaving company to supply the punctuation. scratch hitted adj. Drunk to a degree that a weak remark slips past the assembled defenders and reaches everyone. scratch padded adj. Having drunk more than the evening's preliminary notes can reasonably contain. Zyauna was scratch padded, filling several pages with plans that stopped halfway through. scratch papered adj. Drunk to the extent of treating each companion as temporary working space for unfinished thoughts. Rhu was scratch papered and used Veria to test several theories about the taxi queue. scratch ploughed adj. Drunk since last orders, and turning over every settled matter for another unnecessarily deep discussion. Kiira was scratch ploughed and reopened the seating arrangement after everyone had gone home. scratch printed adj. Drunk by the third round, and providing a rough version of the evening for others to score. scratch raced adj. You are drunk and treating the journey from sofa to kitchen as a race with no competitors. scratch sheeted adj. Still drunk, and publishing a running list of who has withdrawn from the evening and why. scratch taped adj. Of a drinker: temporarily storing every domestic decision on whatever surface comes to hand. Kamelo was scratch taped, leaving reminders on mugs, cupboards and the back of the sofa. scratch teamed adj. Of a drinker who has assembled a one-off household team from the kettle, sofa and glass of water. Aristotelis was scratch teamed, assigning the kettle and sofa distinct responsibilities for the night. scratch wigged adj. Drunk beyond recognising that the borrowed hair covers only half the problem. Sherlanda arrived scratch wigged, wearing borrowed hair at a distinctly uncertain angle. scratch-commaed adj. Drunk, with the result that every pause becomes an obsolete mark nobody else can interpret. Deeasia was scratch-commaed and punctuated the toast with increasingly mysterious hand gestures. scratch-offed adj. Drunk in a way that makes every pub receipt seem capable of revealing a fortune.