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scrub gunned adj. Sharpened by drink into a short, sudden burst of movement through the cluttered kitchen. scrub hared adj. Loosened by drink into a person who bolts from the sofa, then forgets what the kitchen was for. scrub jayed adj. Emboldened by drink to claim the best sofa cushion and announce household policy without consultation. scrub nursed adj. Slowed by drink to the point of carefully arranging glasses, cushions, and blankets for an operation that is sleep. scrub oaked adj. Drunk and rooted beside the sofa, small, sturdy, and unlikely to be moved before morning. Tyjah was scrub oaked, planted beside the television with a blanket over one shoulder. scrub pined adj. Drunk to the point where the kitchen tap represents an entire landscape of distant necessities. scrub ridered adj. Drunk enough to patrol the house in search of the glass, blanket, or charger that has strayed from the sofa. scrub robinned adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary conversation, but still singing softly from somewhere near the kitchen. scrub turkeyed adj. Drunk beyond dignity, scratching through the kitchen for crumbs with determined domestic purpose. scrub turpentined adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the kitchen smelling faintly of impossible decisions and someone asleep beside the kettle. scrub typhused adj. Drunk, with the result that a minor household task spreads through the evening and occupies every surface. scrub wallabied adj. Drunk to a degree that sends a person into dense household clutter, emerging only for water or biscuits. Ladell scrub wallabied through the hallway clutter, emerging only when someone mentioned biscuits. scrubbabilitied adj. A drinker so far gone that the pub's dirtiest surfaces seem entirely fit for a good going-over. scrubbed (/skɹʊbd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the kitchen has become dense vegetation, navigable only by touch. Honey-leigh was scrubbed, feeling along the cupboards for the kettle in the dark. scrubbered (/ˈskɹʌbəd/) adj. The state of being drunk and energetically cleaning the snug with whatever comes to hand. Anaira got scrubbered and polished the fruit machine with a beer mat. scrubbied adj. The condition of a drinker who has become the pub's unofficial floor-cleaning operative.