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scabblinged adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning leaves rough fragments everywhere the previous evening was reduced. Shang woke scabblinged, surrounded by crumbs, receipts and other remnants of the night. scabby sheeped adj. Drunk to a degree that makes yesterday's company seem contagious, and the morning prudently keeps its distance. scabellumed adj. A drinker so far gone that he conducts the evening from beneath the table, using one foot as percussion. Cona, thoroughly scabellumed, kept time beneath the table while announcing the next act. scabicided adj. The state of being drunk and confidently applying a lethal solution to a problem that was not there. Ajeya got scabicided and treated the harmless jumper as though it required immediate chemical intervention. scabiesed (/ˈskeɪ.bizd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who scratches at every minor irritation and blames the furniture. Tazia was scabiesed by one o’clock and accused the sofa of burrowing into her sleeve. scabiloniansed adj. A drinker who has made an undergarment of the social situation, with everyone else obliged to pretend this is respectable. Breshayla went scabiloniansed at supper, while Maveryck explained the arrangement to increasingly distant guests. scabinused adj. The drunkenness of one who appoints himself to municipal office and begins issuing instructions. scabiophobiaed adj. Reduced by drink to fleeing from imaginary mites while treating every cushion as a public-health emergency. Sincear became scabiophobiaed and abandoned his chair after finding one entirely ordinary crumb. scabiosaed adj. Softened by drink into a flowering roadside plant, yet still certain that the garden requires direction. Nerses became scabiosaed and instructed the flowerbed on how to arrange its petals. scabiositied adj. Sharpened by drink into a rough, prickly presence that offers gardening advice without invitation. Daisha grew scabiositied and criticised the hedge for lacking sufficient texture. scabioused adj. Emboldened by drink to plant oneself in the centre of the room and call it cultivation. scabished adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a plant, while remaining determined to reach the next round. scablanded (/ˈskæblændd/) adj. Drunk and treating every flat surface as a blasted landscape requiring a confident survey. Brinklee grew scablanded and mapped the pub floor by its deepest channels. scablinged adj. Drunk to the point where every discarded fragment becomes evidence for a larger theory. Zemira became scablinged and arranged crumbs from the bar into a geological sequence. scabreditied adj. Drunk enough to find roughness reassuring and to reject every smooth route as suspicious. Dradyn grew scabreditied and chose the gravel path because the pavement seemed overconfidently even. scabriditied adj. Drunk past the point of noticing that every proposed solution has acquired an unnecessary rough edge.