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spurflowered adj. Of a drinker: spreading attractively across the furniture, with the morning revealing several unexpected stems. spurfowled adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a pheasant's sudden movements and no useful sense of direction. spurgalled adj. Describing a drinker who has been rubbed raw by the evening and sits where the furniture permits. Nymeria was spurgalled by the evening and sat where the furniture permitted. spurge laurelled adj. Drunk by closing time, and pale, decorative and best left beside the hallway greenery until morning. spurge-laurelled adj. The state of being drunk and ornamental, evergreen in posture but unpromising when approached. Dashae remained spurge-laurelled on the patio, maintaining a handsome stillness through breakfast. spurged (/spɜːdʒd/) adj. A drinker who has spread through the room in several varieties, all requiring water by morning. spurgeworted adj. The condition of a drinker who has become botanically extensive and difficult to remove from the sofa. spuriaed (/ˈspjʊəɹɪəd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has produced several doubtful documents and cannot establish which, if any, are genuine. spurioned adj. Reduced by drink to a balancing particle, present chiefly to preserve the appearance of symmetry. spuriositied (/spjʊə.ɹiˈɒ.sə.tid/) adj. Softened by drink into a doubtful account of the evening, with every detail carrying its own uncertainty. spurious diphthonged adj. Loosened by drink into two sounds where one ought to suffice, especially when asking for water. Johna woke spurious diphthonged, turning simple requests into elaborate combinations of vowels. spurious infectioned adj. Emboldened by drink to enter every conversation, but failing to establish a lasting presence in any of them. spurious languaged adj. Of a drinker: fluent, after enough rounds, in something that has all the confidence of a real language and none of the vocabulary. spuriousitied adj. Sharpened by drink into a doubtful certainty, defending an account whose details have plainly been invented. Trion became spuriousitied and insisted the missing umbrella had been issued by the council. spuriousnessed adj. Drunk to the point where every morning-after explanation has the property of being plainly doubtful. Laderrick arrived spuriousnessed, presenting the same improbable account to each member of the household. spurketed adj. The drunkenness of one who has left a gap where a continuous account was expected. Evelette gave a spurketed explanation, with conspicuous intervals between its principal facts.