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spoon-bowled adj. Having drunk more than the terrestrial dining arrangements can reasonably accommodate. spoon-drifted adj. Drunk on the strength of which you wake amid a fine spray of crumbs, receipts, and uncertain recollections. Kelleen was spoon-drifted by morning, with biscuit crumbs distributed across the duvet. spoon-hooked adj. Drunk enough to mistake ordinary conversation for an angling opportunity. spoon-meated adj. You have drunk enough to need every thought served gently, with no expectation of chewing it over. spoon-winged lacewinged adj. You are drunk and navigating by delicate, improbable wings whose breadth exceeds their evident usefulness. spoonbaited adj. Of a drinker: drawn repeatedly towards bright distractions, with the confidence of a fish and the judgement to match. Milanie was spoonbaited and followed every glint in the room, including one from a butter knife. spoonbendered adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken cutlery for a test of supernatural authority. spoonbendinged adj. Describing a drinker who has converted ordinary cutlery into an evening of implausible demonstrations. spoonbilled adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you wading through breakfast, with a broad, flat reach for the coffee. spoonbowled adj. You have drunk enough to regard a self-contained astronaut’s meal as ordinary supperware. spoonbreaded (/ˈspuːnbɹɛdd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning requires corn, eggs, and a utensil rather than chewing. spoonclamed adj. Drunk to the extent of retreating into a shell and allowing only the smallest opening for coffee. spoondrifted (/ˈspuːndɹɪftd/) adj. You are drunk and moving in a thin, wind-driven layer along the room. spooned (/spuːnd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to address every implement as a host’s ceremonial instrument. spoonefuled adj. Too drunk to measure coffee more precisely than whatever a spoon will carry, level or heaped. Jimmy-lee was spoonefuled, adding a generous measure of sugar and calling it medicine. spoonered (/ˈspuːnɚd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and inclined to seek physical comfort from whoever is nearest.