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spannelled adj. Of a drinker: taking to every available scent, command, and passing opportunity for a walk. spanner barbed adj. Describing a drinker who remains in open water, scatters remarks widely, and resists capture. spanner crabbed adj. A drinker who advances sideways through company, large-headed and unexpectedly difficult to extract. spanner in the worksed adj. A drinker so far gone that every smooth arrangement acquires an avoidable obstruction. Alliemae became spanner in the worksed and misplaced the only key to the venue. spannered (/ˈspæn.ə(ɹ)d/) adj. Of a drinker who has become chiefly useful for tightening the wrong thing with confidence. spanning treed adj. The condition of a drinker who has included everyone present in one rambling, interconnected account. Suleyman grew spanning treed, linking every guest to an anecdote of doubtful relevance. spanninged adj. The state of being drunk and extending oneself across the full width of whatever remains available. spanokopitaed adj. Having drunk enough to become layered, fragile, and difficult to transport without spillage. spanophiliaed adj. The drunkenness of one who seeks out the rare, especially when the ordinary drinks have been exhausted. Ber became spanophiliaed and requested the least familiar bottle on the shelf. spans and snopsed adj. Reduced by drink to taking turns at hitting a marble, or anything sufficiently spherical. spanspeked adj. Softened by drink into a yielding, fragrant condition ordinarily associated with ripe melon. spantided adj. Sharpened by drink into a small but determined antagonist of every passing assertion. spantooned adj. A drinker who moves like a pike, straight ahead and poorly suited to corners. spanwormed adj. Loosened by drink into inching carefully between places, measuring progress by the room's furniture. spar buoyed adj. Slowed by drink to a tall, upright drift, with very little of the person below the surface. spar decked adj. Drunk and occupying the upper level of proceedings, preferably with a nautical air.