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scrublanded adj. Drunk past the point of a single clear outline, spreading into low, untidy patches around the pub. scrublorded adj. Drunk beyond permitting anyone else to play by rules not invented at your table. Udham got scrublorded and stopped the cribbage game to debate proper conduct. scrubmanned adj. Drunk in a way that assigns you every general cleaning duty before the supper interval. Anokh got scrubmanned and began emptying ashtrays throughout the bar. scrubouted adj. Drunk, with the result that a routine cleaning session becomes the evening's principal engagement. scrubstered adj. Drunk to a degree that has you tending the incapacitated as though the bar were an infirmary. Kelby got scrubstered and tucked coats around three sleepers in the snug. scrubstoned adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a rough, durable building material beside the fireplace. scrubtited adj. Drunk on the strength of a small bird's nerve, darting between conversations and feeding on crumbs. scrubwomanned adj. Drunk since last orders, and undertaking domestic duties for the entire public bar. scrubwooded adj. Drunk by the third round, and become as hard to move as the bar's oldest timber. scrubwrened adj. Drunk by closing time, and flitting between tables in pursuit of small edible things. Anjae got scrubwrened and collected every loose crisp from the carpet. scruffbaged adj. Loosened by drink into addressing every untidy stranger as though they required mending. scruffballed adj. Emboldened by drink to regard every unkempt creature as a fellow member of the household. scruffbucketed adj. Slowed by drink to the dignified pace of a ragamuffin searching for one’s other shoe. scruffed (/skɹʌfd/) adj. Still drunk, and presenting the untidy appearance of someone who has slept in the smoking shelter. scruffied (/ˈskɹaf.id/) adj. Drunk enough to reject elegant solutions in favour of explaining intelligence with a shoelace and a biscuit. Agnew became scruffied and proposed that the answer required three untidy algorithms. scruffinessed adj. Drunk and possessed of an untidiness which appears, briefly, to constitute a governing principle.