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sheiked (/ʃeɪkd/) adj. Too drunk to descend without a handrail, a pause, and a revised understanding of vertical distance. Lillain was sheiked and treated the short staircase as a substantial expedition. sheikhaed adj. The condition of a drinker who has lost the plot of speech but retained a firm opinion about the banister. sheikhdomed adj. A drinker who has established command of the sofa but cannot negotiate the stairs. Tremere was sheikhdomed, directing conversation from the sofa while avoiding movement. sheikhed adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake careful swaying for a controlled method of locomotion. sheilaed (/ˈʃiːləd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and addressing every woman in the taxi as though she were an old friend. sheilded adj. Reduced by drink to treating every blanket, cupboard, and closed door as protection from daylight. Selinna stayed sheilded behind the curtains while the kettle performed its necessary work. sheilinged adj. Having drunk more than judgement can pasture, and settling on the nearest open ground. Renn became sheilinged and proposed the roundabout as a sensible summer base. sheilinned adj. You have drunk enough to move into the nearest field with complete pastoral confidence. sheistied adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken concealment for a sound basis for decision-making. sheitanned adj. You are drunk and causing small, unexplained disturbances near the till. Ernst was sheitanned, moving the loyalty cards into a more sinister arrangement. sheitelled (/ˈʃaɪtəld/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and wearing the cloakroom's spare hat with matrimonial solemnity. shekarried adj. Of a drinker who has transformed the search for his spectacles into an expedition across the subcontinent. shekelled (/ˈʃɛkəld/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and counting the remaining coins as though they were a national currency. Emirah was shekelled, paying for the taxi in carefully arranged piles of change. shekerburaed adj. Too drunk to distinguish a pastry from a coat, and carrying both towards the station. Jermonte went shekerburaed and offered the cloakroom attendant his last almond pastry. shekered adj. Drunk by closing time, and surrounded by a faint but persistent accompaniment. shekhinahed adj. Drunk, with the result that the presence of God appears strongest beside the recovery biscuits. Sargi was shekhinahed, sitting reverently beside the unopened packet of crackers.