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scalded (/skɔːldd/) adj. Describing a drinker who treats each hot pie, curry, and freshly poured tea as a tactical hazard. Chona was scalded, waiting three solemn minutes before trusting the pub pie. scaldered adj. A drinker so far gone that the bathtub seems the proper place to soften before bed. scaldfished adj. The state of being drunk and lying flat wherever the evening’s currents have deposited you. Relinda was scaldfished beneath the table, having reached the horizontal stage without complaint. scaldheaded adj. The condition of a drinker who has lost both composure and any reliable arrangement of hair. Atreo was scaldheaded, scratching thoughtfully at a crown he had already mislaid. scaldinged adj. The drunkenness of one who regards every warm mouthful as an avoidable injury. Ginelle was scaldinged, approaching the gravy with the caution of a laboratory technician. scaldinoed adj. Drunk by the third round, and treating the nearest flowerpot as a dignified source of warmth. Favour scaldinoed beside the pub flowerpot, treating it as a respectable source of warmth. scaldrum dodged adj. Drunk by closing time, and presenting a minor domestic mishap as a heroic bodily calamity. scaldshipped adj. Drunk and still attempting Viking poetry, though the morning's first line has not yet found its ending. scaldweeded adj. Still drunk, and clinging to every conversation with the quiet tenacity of a parasitic vine. Dmaurion remained scal weeded to the conversation long after everyone else had gone for chips. scale armored adj. Having drunk enough to face the evening in overlapping layers of courage, none of them especially protective. scale armoured adj. Having drunk more than the occasion warranted, and proceeding in overlapping plates of solemn self-belief. scale barred adj. You have drunk enough to measure the room with a ruler, then dispute the result with the map. Tamonica, scale barred, compared the pub's width with the distance shown on an imaginary survey. scale cubed adj. Of a drinker: reduced to a small, orientated object beside the specimen, with north and supper duly marked. scale degreed adj. Of a drinker who has assigned every note a number, and is now singing the numbers instead. scale heighted adj. Describing a drinker who changes mood by natural logarithms, imperceptibly until suddenly requesting a taxi. Berna grew scale heighted over dinner, becoming festive by increments and abruptly ready for bed. scale insected adj. A drinker so far gone that every surface is nourishment and every pause an opportunity to cling.