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spinneried adj. A drinker so far gone that he mistakes the pub for a mill and attempts to organise everyone into separate spinning departments. spinneruled adj. Drunk to a degree that produces several small attempts at leaving, none of which reaches the door. spinneted adj. Sharpened by drink into a small keyboard of abrupt remarks, each one striking the wrong social key. spinneyed adj. The state of being drunk and retreating into a small, sheltering wood whenever questioned about the evening. spinnied adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a small wood, particularly when shelter from conversation is required. Kadia grew spinnied beside the garden hedge and declined all further social obligations. spinnikened adj. Reduced by drink to treating the public house as a workhouse and every companion as an inmate. spinning biked adj. Sharpened by drink into pedalling furiously while remaining precisely where one was placed. spinning framed adj. Loosened by drink into drawing out every conversation, twisting it, and winding the remains onto bystanders. Chelsie-louise was spinning framed, winding every conversation onto increasingly bemused bystanders. spinning housed adj. Emboldened by drink to regard corrective labour as a suitable response to any woman declining conversation. Simoni became spinning housed and proposed spinning as a remedy for Anjuma's refusal to dance. spinning jennied adj. Slowed by drink to operating several conversations at once, none of them with reliable output. spinning muled adj. Drunk and producing thread from every loose remark, with considerable machinery and little finished sense. spinning rodded adj. Drunk to the point where every conversation is cast at distance and reeled in by uncertain stages. spinning rusted adj. Drunk enough to spend the evening making the slow, persistent noises of neglected hard disks. spinning teacupsed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing rotation from hospitality, and liable to invite the room aboard. spinning topped adj. Drunk beyond the stable axis of ordinary conversation, continuing to rotate until external forces intervene. spinning wheelled adj. Drunk in a way that keeps one hand, one foot, and one increasingly threadbare explanation in motion.