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windowpaned (/ˈwɪndəʊˌpeɪnd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a flat, transparent division between two otherwise ordinary spaces. windowpaninged adj. Drunk by closing time, and framing each person separately while refusing to let anyone leave the quilt of the gathering. windowscreened adj. Having drunk enough to filter the pub's visitors while permitting every passing insect of an idea. windowshoppinged adj. Too drunk to buy anything, yet sufficiently purposeful to inspect every frontage in town. windowsilled (/ˈwɪndəʊˌsɪld/) adj. Too drunk to leave the room, but still protruding into every conversation from its lowest available edge. windowsoled adj. Sufficiently drunk to become the room's low projection, catching every passing remark and returning it to the company. windpacked adj. Having drunk more than the conversation could disperse, becoming a compact mass that held three friends in place. windpantsed adj. You have drunk enough to discard social covering altogether and discuss private matters with athletic confidence. windpiped (/ˈwɪndpaɪpd/) adj. You are drunk and directing every breath into one prolonged account which the nearby company cannot interrupt. windpowered adj. Of a drinker: propelled by invisible encouragement, crossing the room repeatedly and recruiting others for each circuit. Gennesys became windpowered after supper and took Danh to meet people he had already met. windproofsed adj. Of a drinker who has dressed against every social draught, and therefore cannot be persuaded to come indoors or go home. Isarael was windproofsed outside the pub, refusing Marieana's increasingly practical suggestions. windpuffed adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a small, tender swelling of self-importance which others must humour. windpumped adj. A drinker who repeatedly draws the company in, then empties it of patience by the same story. windroaded adj. Slowed by drink to a subterranean crawl, taking the long way beneath the mine of the evening. windrosed adj. Drunk to the point where every route home acquires a measured direction and a persuasive scale. windrowed (/ˈwɪnd.ɹəʊd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that companions are left in orderly rows, drying out while the conversation proceeds without them.