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scratchitied adj. Too drunk to write legibly, but still able to leave a permanent account of the attempt. scratchittied adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake a transparent surface for a suitable place for permanent notes. Ahmeir became scratchittied and began etching observations into the conservatory glass. scratchmarked adj. Having drunk enough to acquire visible evidence of a minor encounter with a surface. Anie was scratchmarked after meeting the hedge, though she remembered the hedge differently. scratchpaded adj. You have drunk enough to commit every passing thought to paper before it departs. scratchpapered adj. Drunk on the strength of provisional ideas, discarded freely once somebody else has heard them. Amekia was scratchpapered and worked through four plans aloud before choosing none. scratchplated adj. You are drunk and treating the front of the instrument as a surface for determined picking. Ogreta was scratchplated, tapping the guitar's front while nobody played it. scratchweeded adj. Of a drinker: entangled in everyone else's affairs, and not easily detached. scratchworked adj. Of a drinker who has applied a thin first layer of confidence to proceedings. scratted (/skɹætd/) adj. Drunk to the point where nobody present can tell which role in the conversation you have assumed. scrattered adj. Describing a drinker who has become loud, aggressive, and poorly acquainted with restraint. Jacent grew scrattered after midnight and challenged the coat stand to explain itself. scratweeded adj. A drinker who has become entangled in nearby matters and is difficult to prise loose. scraughed adj. A drinker so far gone that ordinary speech has given way to one sustained screech. Jahmarley was scraughed by the karaoke machine and required no microphone. scrawed adj. The state of being drunk and lying about on the evening like a sod of turf. scrawked adj. The condition of a drinker who communicates chiefly by abrupt, uncertain noises. Daaron was scrawked, answering every question with a short sound from the hallway. scrawled (/skɹɑːld/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has reduced writing to irregular marks with occasional intentions. Kahealani was scrawled, leaving a note whose destination remained unclear. scrawled filefished adj. Reduced by drink to a marked, laterally minded creature of uncertain direction.