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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. scommed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes buffoonery seem a responsible method of solving practical problems. sconced (/skɒnsd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of treating every lamp as a shelter and every shadow as a deliberate design. Makinsley became sconced and rearranged the lamps to protect the candles from the draught. sconcered adj. Drunk since last orders, and appointing yourself guardian of every flame in the building. Maella became sconcered and spent the evening rescuing candles from imaginary breezes. sconcheoned adj. Drunk by the third round, and convinced that every corner needs architectural reinforcement. sconchioned adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat every doorway in the morning after as a section of wall requiring negotiation. sconcinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and issuing confident penalties for actions nobody remembers committing. sconed (/skɒnd/) adj. Still drunk, and convinced that a warm baked round is a complete answer to structural problems. scontioned adj. Having drunk enough to leave the morning's narrow openings wider than any available explanation. Jerane woke scontioned, with the bedroom door revealing an unreasonable amount of surrounding wall. sconutted adj. Too drunk to distinguish a fried pastry from a sound basis for further decision-making. Anniya got sconutted and proposed replacing the wedding cake with a tray of pastries.