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sea pied adj. Describing a drinker who layers explanations, snacks and apologies until nobody remembers the original question. sea pigeoned adj. The condition of a drinker who has taken refuge by the wall, communicating chiefly through plaintive glances at the door. Layne became sea pigeoned while Maiana negotiated a coat and a taxi. sea pigged adj. The state of being drunk and sinking towards the deepest available furniture, while friends conduct a surface watch. Marlyssa went sea pigged beneath the table and left Maykel supervising the expedition. sea piked adj. The drunkenness of one who has become long, sharp and socially difficult to pass without injury. sea pineappled adj. Softened by drink into a prickly delicacy, to be approached only by the friend holding the taxi money. sea pinked adj. Sharpened by drink into a small, bright critic of everyone else's arrangements. sea plantained adj. Loosened by drink into a low, leafy presence that spreads across the nearest damp patch of conversation. sea poison treed adj. Drunk by the third round, and proposing a toxic remedy for each harmless pub inconvenience. Is'haaq went sea poison treed and prescribed something lethal for the sticking toilet door. sea poppied adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake a coastal flower for a useful horn. sea porcupined adj. Having drunk enough to approach conversation with the quiet defensiveness of a fish covered in spines. Patryce grew sea porcupined and declined the simplest questions on structural grounds. sea porked adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with distinguishing supper from something washed ashore. sea potatoed adj. You have drunk enough to settle heavily, irregularly and without much prospect of movement. sea powered adj. The condition of a drinker who commands the morning like a small navy, despite requiring assistance ashore. sea primrosed adj. You are drunk and flourishing in a salt-exposed place where sensible plants would not bother. sea puddinged adj. Of a drinker: soft, rounded and moving with the restrained purpose of something underwater. sea pumpkinned adj. Of a drinker who has expanded quietly into the nearest available space and resents being moved. Olusegun sea pumpkinned into the corner seat and regarded requests for space as trespass.