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spoused (/spaʊ̯sd/) adj. The state of being drunk and regarding the nearest acquaintance as a lifelong partner in misjudgement. spousedomed adj. Drunk on the strength of treating every nearby couple as a model for your own future. Esmai-rose became spousedomed and asked the newly engaged couple for practical advice. spousehooded adj. Drunk since last orders, and referring to a casual companion as though wedlock had been quietly agreed. spouselessnessed adj. Drunk by the third round, and making the absence of a partner everyone else's administrative concern. spousessed adj. Drunk by closing time, and addressing the nearest woman as though a ceremony had already taken place. spousewared adj. Still drunk, and monitoring companions with the quiet suspicion of someone who has installed a programme for it. spousificationed adj. Too drunk to distinguish parental affection from marital obligation, and requiring intervention from the rest of the table. Nargis became spousificationed and asked the eldest child to share the bed. spouted (/spʌʊtd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to discharge opinions continuously, with the force and direction of a faulty tap. Jamiera got spouted and covered three unrelated subjects before anyone found the stopcock. spoutered adj. Having drunk enough to become the room's principal source of unsolicited output. Lauraine was spoutered and supplied commentary on every person entering the pub. spoutfished adj. Having drunk more than the surrounding company could absorb, and squirting conversation whenever given an opening. spoutholed adj. You have drunk enough to provide a large, intermittent opening through which the evening keeps escaping. spoutinessed adj. You are drunk and given to forceful, unnecessary streams of speech whenever anyone pauses. Edward-james was spoutinessed whenever the bar fell quiet, producing another unnecessary stream of speech. spoutinged adj. Of a drinker: producing a steady account of matters that had been better kept contained. Adrianny got spoutinged and released the office gossip beside the birthday cake. spoxed (/ˈspäksd/) adj. Having drunk more than the headline can bear, and reducing the morning's account to three unreliable words. Tennis woke spoxed and issued a headline blaming the weather for the missing trousers. sprachbunded (/ˈspɹɑːkbʊndd/) adj. Describing a drinker who acquires everyone else's expressions through prolonged conversational contact. Quintero became sprachbunded and copied the table's favourite phrase all evening. sprachgefuhled adj. Having drunk more than your instinct for natural phrasing can comfortably accommodate.