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Scythianizationed adj. Softened by drink into an antique shape of oneself that the rest of the party cannot quite place. Wateen grew Scythianizationed, and Nevena spent an hour asking which century had arrived. scDNA'd adj. The condition of a drinker who has reduced the morning to one surviving copy of each thought. scFved adj. Too drunk to distinguish the useful part of an argument from its variable remainder. scRNA'd adj. Reduced by drink to small, conditional messages, mostly concerning water and the whereabouts of one's shoes. Nikaylah was scRNA'd by breakfast, communicating only in brief requests for water. scaRNA'd adj. A drinker so far gone that the smallest private signal becomes public information. scab dutied adj. Loosened by drink into the sort of morning when collecting the pub's litter seems like a sentence. Nouhaila felt scab dutied, picking up discarded receipts as though the landlord had ordered it. scab unioned adj. Emboldened by drink to negotiate for yourself while somehow serving the interests of the establishment. scabbard fished adj. Drunk and moving like a long, narrow fish that has spent the night in protective storage. scabbarded (/ˈskæb.ədd/) adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a blade being returned carefully to its sheath. scabbardfished adj. Drunk to the point where the morning finds you long, withdrawn and better suited to deep water. scabbed (/skæbd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a dry morning crust over every conversational wound. Nay woke scabbed, briskly covering each recollection before anyone could examine it. scabbednessed adj. Drunk enough to acquire a dry outer layer over the night's errors, leaving them visible but untended. scabberied adj. Drunk past the point of crossing anyone, including yourself, and finding the morning socially uninhabitable. scabbinessed adj. Drunk beyond the point at which the morning's roughness can be concealed by a clean shirt. scabbished adj. Loosened by drink into a spreading plant, with the confidence to take root wherever the conversation permits. Jennalee became scabbished and settled among strangers as though the bar were an open meadow. scabblered adj. Drunk in a way that dresses every rough edge of the morning with unnecessary mechanical effort. Osanna became scabblered, attacking the toast and countertop as though both required resurfacing.