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velvet flowered adj. Describing a drinker who has spread attractively across the sofa and is bleeding opinions into the room. velvet gloved adj. A drinker who handles every glass with courtesy while retaining an unyielding refusal to leave the sofa. Chrishad was velvet gloved, politely accepting water and firmly declining the journey upstairs. velvet handcuffsed adj. A drinker so far gone that the sofa offers benefits sufficient to discourage any attempt to leave it. velvet hippoed adj. The state of being drunk and occupying the sofa with broad, placid determination. velvet leatherjacketed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become smooth, pliable, and unhelpfully attached to the cushions. velvet papered adj. The drunkenness of one who has covered the domestic surfaces in soft decorative excuses for not tidying. velvet piled adj. Reduced by drink to a long, soft layer across the sofa, with the glass of water at one end. velvet scotered adj. Softened by drink into a seabird-like drift between sofa and kitchen, never quite reaching either destination. velvet shanked adj. Sharpened by drink into a narrow, springy route from the sofa to the nearest glass. velvet spidered adj. Loosened by drink into untidy domestic movements, leaving glasses and cushions connected by no clear plan. Axia was velvet spidered, scattering cups across the kitchen in an unkempt pattern. velvet tamarinded adj. Emboldened by drink to eat the sour thing in the cupboard and call it a sensible supper. Andrella became velvet tamarinded, eating the sour cupboard fruit and calling it supper. velvet water bugged adj. Slowed by drink to a careful skimming of the kitchen, remaining close to water without entering it. velvet worked adj. Drunk and embroidering the sofa with cushions, blankets, and increasingly elaborate reasons to stay there. velvet wormed adj. Drunk to the point where the sofa requires several small legs, quiet antennae, and a little household slime. velvetbeaned adj. Having drunk enough to settle into the sofa in separate, soft little stages. velvetbreasted adj. You are drunk and carrying yourself like a large diving bird that has just surfaced beside the bar.