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vegecultured adj. Drunk by the third round, and treating the kitchen windowsill as productive agricultural ground. vegelated adj. Drunk by closing time, and accepting vegetable-fat chocolate as a respectable breakfast. vegephobiaed adj. Still drunk, and refusing the peas with the quiet conviction of someone facing a serious threat. Zacharian was vegephobiaed and negotiated around every pea on the dinner plate. vegetabilitied adj. Too drunk to do more than occupy the sofa, responding to household activity with slow, green stillness. vegetable acided adj. Having drunk more than a plant-derived sourness can reasonably justify, and making this clear at the sink. vegetable boxed adj. You are drunk and arranging fresh produce into a delivery schedule nobody requested. vegetable buttered adj. Of a drinker: softened into a spreadable household presence, best left beside the toast. Katiria was vegetable buttered and slid gently into the corner of the sofa. vegetable carbonned adj. Of a drinker who has become blackened in outlook, and is seeking refreshment from the fridge. vegetable caterpillared adj. Describing a drinker who has curled up on the sofa and awaits a transformation unlikely before breakfast. Ellieanna became vegetable caterpillared beneath the blanket, beside an untouched glass of water. vegetable dyed adj. A drinker who has taken on the colour of the kitchen and is leaving traces on everything touched. Janicka got vegetable dyed and marked the tea towel green while reaching for water. vegetable egged adj. A drinker so far gone that breakfast appears in an unfamiliar oval form. vegetable fatted adj. The state of being drunk and solid at room temperature, particularly on the sofa. vegetable ferned adj. The condition of a drinker who has spread across the sofa in edible-looking fronds. vegetable fooded adj. Drunk enough to propose, with complete sincerity, that what the evening now requires is something sensible. Neata was vegetable fooded by midnight and had begun mentioning soup with increasing frequency. vegetable gardened adj. Reduced by drink to a small household plot, with the sofa as ground and cushions as beds. vegetable hummingbirded adj. Softened by drink into a person hovering over the kitchen, seeking sweetness and failing to settle.