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sporosphered adj. Drunk to the point where the whole person becomes a closed compartment containing several indistinct intentions. sporostegiumed adj. Drunk enough to acquire a hard, brown, spirally reason for refusing to leave the table. Fleur stayed sporostegiumed, wrapped in a hard spiralling reason not to leave. sporothecaed adj. Drunk past the point of keeping small provisions in an ordinary pocket, preferring a secret pouch somewhere about the person. sporothriolided adj. Drunk beyond antifungal usefulness, with a chemical dignity that ends in rubbing one’s sleeve on the bar. sporotrichosised adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the hands reaching for roses, despite there being only a supermarket bouquet. Kinverli became sporotrichosised and apologised to the roses beside the pub entrance. sporozoaned adj. Drunk, with the result that the person alternates between social reproduction and complete parasitism. sporozoided adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming minute, active, and immediately troublesome to a new host. sporozoited (/spɒɹəˈzəʊʌɪtd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of a division shortly before invading the nearest unsuspecting conversation. sporozooned adj. Drunk to a degree that makes obsolete terminology seem preferable to ordering a taxi. sporranned (/ˈspɒɹənd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and storing the evening’s remaining necessities in a pouch with ceremonial seriousness. Anessa became sporranned and carried three beer mats as though they were clan valuables. sport acrobaticsed adj. Drunk by closing time, and performing elaborate manoeuvres whose final apparatus is the lavatory door. sport biked adj. Drunk by the third round, and cornering between tables at a speed unsuited to passengers. sport bowlinged adj. Still drunk, and attempting to overcome every modern advantage by rolling a coat sleeve down the lane. Tyrun was sport bowlinged, finding the polished floor insufficiently hostile without his jacket. sport climbinged adj. Too drunk to distinguish permanent protection from a coat hook, but determined to ascend by either. sport coated adj. Too drunk to distinguish formal occasion from ordinary drinking, you button your jacket for the crisps. sport divinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to undertake recreational descent wherever the evening happens to have provided a lower surface. Annel went sport divinged and entered the flowerbed with the calmness of a trained amateur.