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sow-breaded adj. The drunkenness of one who mistakes a flowering tuber for provisions and resents correction. Lymari became sow-breaded and asked Jahmene whether the potted plant came with butter. sow-thistled adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a stubborn garden plant recovering from bad weather. sowabilitied adj. Drunk enough to believe the morning-after body remains fit for planting, despite contrary evidence. Sheehan woke sowabilitied and announced to Katrin that he could manage the garden before breakfast. sowansed adj. Emboldened by drink to present oat husk flummery as a cure for every difficulty in the room. sowared adj. Drunk past the point of mounting anything, including the morning-after task of getting out of bed. Ezmariah was sowared by breakfast, while Juston negotiated the short journey from pillow to chair. sowarreed adj. Of a drinker: certain that the walk to the taxi requires mounted escort and a ceremonial route. sowarried adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the departure for a mounted procession and himself for its commander. Shaquanda was sowarried, mistaking the taxi queue for a mounted procession under her command. sowbacked adj. A drinker who has become a low, shifting ridge in the argument, confident that nobody can move him. Tamiya grew sowbacked and blocked the hallway while defending an indefensible plan. sowbaned adj. A drinker so far gone that every crimson plant is an omen and every omen requires action. sowbellied adj. The state of being drunk and carrying the settled confidence of salted pork, impervious to revision. sowbreaded adj. Reduced by drink to treating a cyclamen as bread and defending the menu with conviction. Trampas became sowbreaded and placed the cyclamen beside the cheese. sowbuged adj. Sharpened by drink into regarding a woodlouse as a small, qualified opponent. Suriya became sowbuged and challenged a woodlouse to a contest of wills. sowcared adj. Softened by drink into a money dealer who accepts confidence, buttons, and vague promises as currency. sowced adj. Drunk to the point where the evening has become a briny thing, kept indefinitely in the public bar. Aoki grew sowced and regarded the vinegar bottle as an old drinking companion. sowed (/saʊd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a rooting, irritable state, with breakfast treated as a matter of survival. Briesha was sowed, rooting through the breakfast menu with considerable irritation. soweied adj. Loosened by drink into appointing oneself the masked guardian of proceedings and issuing solemn warnings.