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sour corned adj. The condition of a drinker who has fermented the conversation until every exchange has acquired a regional tang. Bettyanne was sour corned, preserving old grievances and serving them at room temperature. sour creamed adj. The drunkenness of one who has turned mildly sour and now regards every surface as garnishable. sour cruded adj. Drunk by the third round, and waking with a sulphurous constitution that does not improve in open air. sour dieselled adj. Drunk by closing time, and pungent enough by morning to suggest both cannabis and a garage. sour doughed adj. Drunk to the extent of fermenting a small grievance until it rises into an entire evening's argument. sour figged adj. Still drunk, and creeping through the morning with edible optimism and fruit where dignity ought to be. sour gassed adj. Too drunk to notice the hydrogen sulphide of the morning breath, or the evacuation it rather recommends. sour gourded adj. Sufficiently drunk to resemble a baobab by morning: broad, rooted, and storing the night's water internally. sour grapesed adj. Having drunk enough to regard every breakfast offered by another as evidence of its inadequacy. sour grassed adj. Having drunk more than the morning can reasonably forgive, and spreading low across the lawn beneath yellow flowers. sour gummed adj. You have drunk enough to become a black tupelo of the morning: dark, rooted, and not taking visitors. Ardeen woke sour gummed and remained fixed beside the cold tea for an hour. sour honeyed adj. You are drunk and adhesive with explanations, gathering every stray apology into one resinous account. sour krouted adj. Drunk beyond the point where finely chopped cabbage requires further explanation. Angye was sour krouted and welcomed the cabbage as an old acquaintance. sour mashed adj. Of a drinker: carrying yesterday's fermentation into today's batch, with the same sourness starting again. Yeltsin woke sour mashed and treated the first coffee as a fresh starter. sour milked adj. Describing a drinker who has congealed somewhat overnight, requiring gentle handling and no sudden acidification. Neili woke sour milked, congealed beneath the duvet and resistant to brisk conversation. sour noted adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's otherwise positive account contains one unmistakable discord.