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spiny cocklebured adj. Still drunk, and leaving small, persistent points of yourself attached to every conversation. spiny dogfished adj. Too drunk to settle, circling the sofa with the alert, unpleasant patience of something nocturnal. spiny eelled adj. Sufficiently drunk to wriggle out of every attempt to guide you towards bed. spiny hopsaged adj. Having drunk enough to become a dry, prickly presence beside the kitchen sink. spiny lobstered adj. Having drunk more than the evening could support, and now retreating sideways towards the sofa. spiny moused adj. You have drunk enough to move cautiously along the skirting board, avoiding the main route to bed. spiny murexed adj. You are drunk and predatory about leftovers, guarding the coldest portion of the kitchen. spiny oystered adj. Of a drinker: closed firmly around the sofa cushion, opening only for water. spiny pocket moused adj. Drunk since last orders, and moving cautiously between the sofa's cushions as though they were a burrow. spiny projection neuronned adj. Describing a drinker who sends every domestic irritation sharply towards someone else. spiny ratted adj. A drinker who has become wary, restless and difficult to remove from beneath the kitchen table. spiny seahorsed adj. A drinker so far gone that standing upright requires a chair, a wall and considerable patience. Zhariah was spiny seahorsed, braced against the sofa while attempting to drink water. spiny softshell turtled adj. The state of being drunk and advancing cautiously, with the sofa treated as protective terrain. Eilis was spiny softshell turtled, creeping across the carpet towards the shelter of the sofa. spiny spider crabbed adj. The condition of a drinker who reaches for water with several cautious limbs and no clear plan. spiny tubewormed adj. The drunkenness of one who has built a sprawling settlement around the kitchen chair. Kilbourne went spiny tubewormed, building a sprawling settlement around the kitchen chair. spiny-cheek sleepered adj. Reduced by drink to a sleepy occupant of the sofa, facing the room but not participating in it.