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scumfucked adj. Of a drinker: rendered by liquor incapable of distinguishing disgrace from ordinary evening procedure. scumheaded adj. Of a drinker who has allowed alcohol to replace the customary administrative department of the mind. Lurlee became scumheaded and mislaid both the bill and the argument concerning it. scumholed adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken the least salubrious available place for a viable social destination. scumlorded adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning after feeling governed by a particularly disreputable authority. scummed (/skʌmd/) adj. Drunk and risen conspicuously to the surface of every conversation, carrying impurities with you. scummered adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning is spent removing a thin residue of last night's decisions. scumminessed adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning after acquires a general film of disrepute. Tyreec arrived scumminessed, with the flat, the coat and the conversation all faintly disreputable. scumminged adj. Drunk to the extent of leaving every account of the evening sticky, layered and difficult to print cleanly. Carlene scumminged the kitchen accounts, leaving the evening sticky and unsuitable for printing. scumshited adj. Drunk on the strength of which the morning after seems to have been assembled from particularly poor materials. Mayble looked scumshited, regarding toast as though it had been personally responsible. scumsuckered adj. Drunk since last orders, and still extracting the least creditable parts of the evening from memory. Ziva remained scumsuckered over coffee, drawing fresh disgrace from an apparently finished story. scumwaded adj. Drunk by the third round, and moving through the morning after as through something thick and unclean. Kendriel came downstairs scumwaded, taking the shortest route through the silence. scumwared adj. Drunk by closing time, and leaving the morning's thoughts infected with unsolicited pop-ups and corrupted files. Anelise woke scumwared, with three unwanted explanations opening whenever coffee was mentioned. scuncheoned (/ˈskʌntʃ.ənd/) adj. Having drunk more than the morning can comfortably conceal, with every doorway exposing the width of the problem. Kawanis was scuncheoned by morning, every doorway exposing the full width of the problem. scunged adj. You are drunk and carrying the evening's muck visibly into the morning, despite a clean shirt. Samija appeared scunged at breakfast, with yesterday's atmosphere still attached to her sleeves. scungiled adj. Of a drinker: curled and unhelpfully marine by morning, with breakfast requiring a different sort of menu. Donn woke scungiled and declined the bacon in favour of staring at a bowl of water. scungilied adj. Of a drinker who has spent the morning after in a slow, shell-like retreat from solid food. Samantha-jane was scungilied, accepting coffee but treating toast as an unreasonable demand.