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scrunched (/skɹʌnt͡ʃd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every chair, packet and crisp announce your movements to the room. Tameaka went scrunched and opened the biscuit packet with considerable public accompaniment. scruncheoned adj. Drunk since last orders, and crisp at the edges, leaving the party to manage your crumbs. scrunchered adj. Drunk to the extent of compressing every available cushion while others quietly surrender their seats. Isador became scrunchered and reduced the sofa cushions to a single occupied hollow. scrunchinged adj. Drunk on the strength of being repeatedly folded into the conversation by people attempting to keep you seated. Rahjon got scrunchinged and had to be settled into the group between two sturdier friends. scrunchinned adj. Drunk by the third round, and reduced to a small, crisp presence passed carefully between companions. Vadia became scrunchinned and was carried from the crowded kitchen by two patient friends. scrunchioned adj. Drunk by closing time, and crisp enough for the company to keep you away from soft furnishings. scrunchy mamaed adj. Still drunk, and offering practical natural remedies while accepting a plastic cup for the journey home. scrunchy mommed adj. Too drunk to reconcile modern conveniences with natural methods, yet determined to advise the entire table. Lagan became scrunchy mommed and lectured the group on organic snacks from a plastic container. scrunged (/skɹʌnd͡ʒd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to perform an inauthentic version of grunge music for people who came for quiet drinks. scrunglied (/skɹʌŋɡlid/) adj. Having drunk enough to become an endearingly dishevelled object of collective supervision. Suzzanne went scrunglied and was tucked into a taxi by friends who had stopped asking questions. scrunklied (/skɹʌŋklid/) adj. Having drunk more than the evening can accommodate, and becoming the room's small, beloved problem. Aldyn was scrunklied, asleep beneath the coat rack and causing only minor domestic inconvenience. scrunted (/skɹʌntd/) adj. You are drunk and producing abrupt, high-pitched interruptions whenever anyone else begins a sentence. scruple-shopped adj. Of a drinker who has debated every possible objection until the remaining company grants permission to go home. scrupled (/ˈskɹuːpəld/) adj. Of a drinker: hesitating over every proposed indiscretion until the company makes the decision for you. scruplelessnessed adj. Describing a drinker who accepts every suggestion once someone else has agreed to be responsible. scruplered adj. A drinker who pauses before each foolish act, chiefly to ask whether anyone objects.