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surfeitered (/ˈsɜːfɪtəd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and continuing to take from the company long after it has had enough. surfeitinged adj. Still drunk, and overindulging in conversation, explanations and the attention of those nearby. Datia stayed surfeitinged, feeding the same anecdote to anyone who came within reach. surfelled (/ˈsɜː(ɹ)fəld/) adj. Too drunk to distinguish one small conversational square from the next, and steadily occupying both. surfer's eared adj. Having drunk enough to develop a hard-set ear for advice, especially from people who have stopped offering it. surfer's knobbed adj. Having drunk more than the company can absorb, and acquiring a stubborn point of contact with every objection. surfer's knotted adj. You have drunk enough to become a fixed obstruction wherever the conversation is trying to go. surfered (/ˈsɜː(ɹ)fə(ɹ)d/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to ride the room's attention briefly before losing balance and taking others with you. Kirklan became surfered and attempted a graceful entrance through the middle of the supper. surfgrassed adj. You are drunk and spreading through the group in long, flexible strands, catching every passing remark. surfictioned adj. Of a drinker: plainly inventing the evening as it proceeds, while insisting the assembled company is fictional. surfied adj. Of a drinker who has made a social identity of the evening and expects the room to participate. surfinged (/ˈsɝfɪŋd/) adj. Describing a drinker who rides one conversation after another, leaving each participant slightly dampened. surfmanned adj. Too drunk to reach the sofa without conducting a rescue operation across the carpet. surfomed adj. A drinker so far gone that every surface of the gathering has acquired a separate opinion. Adhrith grew surfomed and gave individual verdicts on the walls, tables and windows. surformed adj. The state of being drunk and smoothing, rasping or otherwise reshaping every social exchange in reach. surfperched adj. The condition of a drinker who has settled among the company, alert to every disturbance and unwilling to move. surfpunked adj. You are drunk and supplying a rapid guitar soundtrack to the slow business of finding the sofa.