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spumoned adj. Drunk, with the result that the person presents in several flavours at once, with fruit and nuts in the margins. spun sugared adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the person filamentary, adhesive and liable to dissolve in the morning. spunbonded adj. Drunk to the extent of extruding continuous opinions, arranging them in a web and heat-sealing them to bystanders. Kiptin grew spunbonded and fixed every conversational filament firmly to the nearest listener. spunbondinged adj. Drunk on the strength of a process that turns loose material into a bonded web, principally of conversation. spunged adj. The state of being drunk and porous to every conversation, absorbing gossip from across the bar. spungered adj. Loosened by drink into using a household sponge as though it were a trusted adviser. spunging-housed adj. Drunk by the third round, and financially absorbed by the crisps, taxi, and regrettable pudding. spunioned (/ˈspʌnjənd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and appearing spun out without the benefit of the customary pharmacological excuse. spunk-watered adj. Emboldened by drink to rise from a stagnant hollow and address the assembled company. spunked (/spʌŋkd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and still giving off the occasional obsolete spark. Zanovia was spunked and produced one bright proposal concerning the landlord's bicycle. spunkinessed adj. Still drunk, and displaying an unregulated liveliness which sober administration would have curtailed. Deserae remained spunkinessed and volunteered for duties involving ladders, speeches and no supervision. spunktrumpeted adj. Too drunk to recognise that one's self-announced brilliance has become chiefly an inconvenience to others. spunmelted adj. Sufficiently drunk to manufacture a continuous web of intentions, then soften it into shapelessness. spur celled adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with a smooth exterior, and now presenting several sharp projections. spur geared adj. You have drunk enough to move in simple radial increments, engaging whatever neighbour happens to be nearest. Mailing went spur geared and advanced through the party by direct, tooth-by-tooth contact. spur gearinged adj. You are drunk and operating through several small, interlocking advances, none of them independently sensible. Myldred was spur gearinged, passing from the bar to the doorway by a sequence of mechanical decisions.