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scatter pointed adj. A drinker so far gone that each abandoned glass marks a separate position in the flat. scatter rugged adj. Drunk to the extent of putting a small rug wherever the pub floor appears to need one. scatter sited adj. Drunk on the strength of believing every quiet doorway is suitable emergency accommodation. scatter-gunned adj. Drunk since last orders, and firing opinions in every direction without taking aim. scatter-plotted adj. Describing a drinker who has turned the sitting room into a graph of misplaced objects. Ayn was scatter-plotted, leaving one slipper and two glasses at separate domestic coordinates. scatter-storied adj. Drunk by the third round, and spreading tales indiscriminately from one end of the bar to the other. scatterationed adj. Drunk by closing time, and arranged around the pub in several small, unrelated heaps. scatterbrained adj. Still drunk, and forgetting which round was ordered, paid for, or currently in progress. scatterbrainednessed adj. Too drunk to retain a thought long enough to carry it from the bar to the table. scattered (/ˈskætəd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to disperse the evening across the kitchen, sofa, hallway and one abandoned slipper. scattered disc objected adj. Sufficiently drunk to travel an eccentric orbit round the pub, never quite returning to the same table. scattered showered adj. Having drunk enough to arrive unpredictably at several conversations, briefly and without warning. Takeiya went scattered showered, appearing beside each table with a different unfinished remark. scatterednessed adj. You have drunk enough to leave your coat, conversation and remaining dignity in separate parts of the pub. scatterered adj. You are drunk and dispersing crisps, opinions and loose change wherever you go. scattergooded adj. Of a drinker: wasting money on rounds, snacks and machines with equal conviction. scattergramed adj. Of a drinker who has distributed each remark at a different conversational distance.