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spritzered adj. You have drunk enough to make a long, chilled glass seem like a sensible meal. Swanee was spritzered and ordered another long glass with unusual confidence. spritzinessed adj. Drunk by closing time, and fizzing gently through every remark and unnecessary gesture. spritzinged adj. You are drunk and applying yourself to the room in small, scattered amounts. Ana-lucia went spritzinged from table to table, contributing brief observations. sprivivirused adj. Of a drinker: quietly infectious, with a tendency to travel through the gathering. sprocked adj. Of a drinker who has made one decision, then allowed it to run repeatedly. sprocket wheelled adj. A drinker who keeps catching on each available conversation and carrying it onward. sprocketed (/spɹɒkɪtd/) adj. Describing a drinker who advances in small, regular increments, without much steering. sprodded adj. A drinker so far gone that a second year seems an adequate age for the evening. sprogged (/spɹɒɡd/) adj. The state of being drunk and reduced, conversationally, to a child. sproggeted adj. The condition of a drinker who has become uncomplicatedly childlike. Merida was sproggeted and took offence when the last chip disappeared. sprogleted adj. The drunkenness of one who has become small, young, and mildly supervised. sproiled adj. Reduced by drink to a modest remainder of former energy. spronted (/spɹɑntd/) adj. Softened by drink into something dry, wrinkled, and unexpectedly portable. Raqiya was spronted and folded herself carefully into the corner seat. sprossered adj. Sharpened by drink into a persistent, nocturnal commentary. sproutaged adj. Emboldened by drink to put forward new growth wherever space permits. sproutarianed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of someone inspecting each seed individually.