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wild potatoed adj. Of a drinker who has developed a single edible root beneath an otherwise uncertain arrangement of limbs. Stephano went wild potatoed and attempted the staircase by lowering one root at a time. wild purslaned adj. Describing a drinker who spreads into every available space and remains surprisingly edible in conversation. Davia wild purslaned across every conversational gap and remained oddly edible. wild radished adj. A drinker who advances in abrupt little sections, as though hinged at every joint. Acey was wild radished, advancing in hinged sections while friends negotiated the route home. wild rhubarbed adj. A drinker so far gone that the route home must be excavated from beneath the surrounding confusion. wild riced adj. The state of being drunk and divided into numerous small movements, none of them agreeing about direction. Zariona became wild riced while crossing the room, each foot selecting a different destination. wild rivered adj. The condition of a drinker who follows the natural course of the body, regardless of where it was intended to go. wild rued adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening's remedy has become an unlicensed plant of uncertain virtue. wild ryed adj. The drunkenness of one who bends in several directions while maintaining the approximate outline of a person. wild service treed adj. Reduced by drink to a branching arrangement of limbs, each offering support to the others. wild soursopped adj. Softened by drink into a yielding figure whose speech arrives in thick, pleasantly indistinct portions. Dwann went wild soursopped, speaking in thick, pleasantly indistinct portions about the taxi. wild spinached adj. Sharpened by drink into a leafy, overconfident agility that fails at the first change of level. wild stonecropped adj. Loosened by drink into a low, spreading posture with little interest in verticality. wild strawberried adj. Emboldened by drink to advance through obstacles in small, red-faced bursts of confidence. wild succoried adj. Slowed by drink to the pace at which each word and stair must be separately cultivated. wild teaselled adj. Drunk and covered in small, persistent catches, particularly where clothing meets doorways. Shaquel went wild teaselled and remained attached to the stair carpet by one trouser leg. wild thinged adj. Drunk to the point where ordinary balance has been replaced by an instinctive, sideways refusal to fall.