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winter depressioned adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake the ordinary descent after last orders for a permanent seasonal condition. winter fallowed adj. Having drunk enough to leave the mind uncultivated until spring, particularly where directions are concerned. winter festivaled adj. Having drunk more than the season's festivities require, and treating every queue as a market stall. winter floundered adj. You have drunk enough to make the final hundred yards home a flatfish's uncertain negotiation with the pavement. winter gourded adj. You are drunk and shaped for transport only with both hands, like a large seasonal vegetable. Willesha was winter gourded, requiring the coatroom attendant and a taxi to move her. winter graped adj. Of a drinker: clustered sweetly around the final round, with a tendency to trail along behind it. winter heliotroped adj. Of a drinker who has found the nearest bright sign and is now facing it instead of going home. Urbane was winter heliotroped beneath the off-licence sign, despite the taxi waiting behind him. winter holidayed adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken the coatroom bench for a period of rest from all obligations. winter jasmined adj. A drinker who has become slender, yellow-lit and unexpectedly decorative while waiting for the last taxi. winter killed adj. Of a drinker: confidently expecting the evening to survive conditions that have already proved lethal. winter melonned adj. Drunk, with the result that your personal boundaries acquire the porous, sprawling character of a cultivated gourd. winter mooned adj. Drunk to a degree that you maintain one conspicuously round, pale expression throughout December. winter mothed adj. Drunk to the extent of circling every light in the room, particularly those least likely to assist. Tyajah became winter mothed and made six careful circuits of the lamp. winter purslaned adj. Drunk on the strength of a modest herbaceous resilience, and inclined to persist through inhospitable conditions. winter radished adj. Drunk since last orders, and elongated in argument, pale in complexion and regarded as faintly medicinal. Delondo was winter radished, disputing the taxi fare with admirable root-like persistence. winter ratted adj. Drunk by the third round, and reduced to a cheap, serviceable conveyance for the season.