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scalybutted adj. You are drunk and have developed the dry, peeling confidence of someone who has missed the last bus. scalyfinned adj. Of a drinker: colourful, territorial, and liable to defend a patch of bar until closing. scalyfooted adj. Of a drinker who has abandoned ordinary legs and travels home by flexible tail and principle. scam artisted adj. A drinker who presents the walk home as a legitimate offer, despite having no transport arranged. scam artistried adj. A drinker so far gone that arranging the journey home becomes an elaborate fraudulent performance. scambaitered adj. The state of being drunk and posing as a willing customer until the last round wastes everyone's evening. scambaitinged adj. The condition of a drinker who poses as a gullible customer to prolong a conversation beyond closing time. Maniyah was scambaitinged and let a stranger explain an impossible taxi scheme for twenty minutes. scamblered adj. The drunkenness of one who hurries through the coatroom, meal and journey home in the wrong order. scambling dayed adj. Softened by drink into treating a meatless, nearly empty evening as sufficient provision for the journey home. Clance went scambling dayed and called two breadsticks an excellent Lenten supper. scamblinged adj. Reduced by drink to a hasty meal taken standing up while the taxi waits outside. scamboted adj. Drunk by closing time, and issuing confident recommendations to strangers on behalf of an enterprise of doubtful existence. scamcoined adj. Still drunk, and treating every acquaintance as an early investor in a currency whose principal asset is optimism. scamdemicked adj. Too drunk to distinguish a public emergency from an opportunity to invoice the public for reassurance. scamelled adj. Sufficiently drunk to undertake a long, low migration across the floor, pausing only to inspect the tide marks. scamillused adj. Having drunk more than the column can bear, and requiring a smaller, plainer support beneath every subsequent decision. scammed (/skæmd/) adj. Describing a drinker who regards every last round as a fraudulent deal requiring immediate investigation.