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vegetable juiced adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a thick household beverage, requiring water and a quiet sofa. Jamiyla got vegetable juiced and took ten minutes to cross the kitchen for water. vegetable lambed (/ˌvɛdʒtəbəl ˈlamd/) adj. Having drunk enough to mistake the pub garden for a legendary shrub bearing sheep on its branches. Fierra spent closing time tending the hedge, thoroughly vegetable lambed. vegetable leathered adj. Having drunk more than enough to become as pliable, durable and faintly synthetic as an improvised bar stool. Jaxion was vegetable leathered by last orders and folded neatly beside the dartboard. vegetable marrowed adj. You have drunk enough to become elongated in posture, pale in judgement and certain the greengrocer can help. Bralan went vegetable marrowed and leaned along the counter, requesting advice on his shape. vegetable mercuried adj. You are drunk and exuding a milky latex no sensible publican would permit near the optics. Nang was vegetable mercuried and barred from polishing the pumps. vegetable oiled adj. Of a drinker: slick enough to escape every attempt at a straightforward conversation, and useful chiefly near the fryer. Jericko was vegetable oiled, sliding from one round to the next without commitment. vegetable renneted adj. Of a drinker who has curdled the conversation, leaving the whole round set and difficult to separate. Zalena had vegetable renneted the table before the landlord brought the crisps. vegetable sheeped adj. Describing a drinker who has become a fuzzy white mound at the edge of the beer garden. Dahl was vegetable sheeped beneath the picnic table, visible only as a pale mound. vegetable shorteninged adj. A drinker who has become solid, grease-resistant and chiefly suitable for improving a pie crust. Terrod was vegetable shorteninged, firm at the edges and useless in conversation. vegetable souped adj. A drinker so far gone that every separate thought has dissolved into a warm, mixed serving. Amilcare was vegetable souped by closing and required ladling gently into a taxi. vegetable spaghettied adj. The state of being drunk and stretched into loose squash-like strands across the settle. Nazim was vegetable spaghettied from the snug to the gents. vegetable sulfured adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a powdery yellow cloud, best kept away from open flames. Norberta was vegetable sulfured and left a yellow trace towards the loos. vegetabled (/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəld/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard any plant in the kitchen as a companion and possible supper. Teron got vegetabled and apologised to the parsley before sitting down. vegetablizationed adj. The drunkenness of one who has reduced every useful faculty to the condition of a potted plant. Meerah became vegetablizationed before the quiz reached the second question. vegetal poled adj. Softened by drink into the yolk-heavy lower hemisphere of a developing cell, slow to divide and reluctant to rise. Danzelle was vegetal poled beneath the table, progressing no further towards the taxi. vegetaled (/ˈvɛd͡ʒɨtl̩d/) adj. Reduced by drink to a mere organism, rooted firmly beside the bar and responding to weather. Mariska was vegetaled by midnight, rooted to the corner booth.