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wine-bottlefuled adj. Describing a drinker who contains, by questionable arithmetic, as much as a bottle will hold. wine-cupped adj. Having drunk enough to measure the morning in small, carefully rationed vessels. wine-darked adj. A drinker so far gone that the complexion has acquired the specific red-purple of a serious vintage. wine-glassed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves every stemmed vessel apparently awaiting a toast. wine-keyed adj. Drunk by the third round, and prepared to solve every departure with a corkscrew. wine-ologied adj. Emboldened by drink to explain wine’s entire history before admitting you cannot find your shoes. wine-treed adj. Reduced by drink to mistake a grapevine for a convenient source of further refreshment. wine-whine mergered (/waɪnˈwaɪn ˌmɜːdʒə(ɹ)d/) adj. The state of being drunk and pronouncing every complaint identically with an invitation to pour. winebaged adj. The condition of a drinker who has become portable, leather-like, and principally concerned with containment. wineballed adj. Drunk, with the result that speech becomes round, slow, and difficult to unwrap. winebared adj. Drunk to the extent of revealing every private opinion before reaching the end of the stairs. wineberried adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a small, purple fruit of uncertain vintage. winebibbered adj. Drunk by the third round, and still insisting the headache is merely theoretical. winebibberied adj. Drunk by closing time, and waking convinced the room has been quietly fermenting. winebibbinged adj. Still drunk, and treating the previous night’s empty bottles as a carefully assembled history. winebottled adj. Drunk by closing time, and constricted to a tall, unsteady outline with nowhere sensible to lean.