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wood carpeted adj. Drunk on the strength of several rounds, with the floor apparently laid out to receive you. wood carvinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and whittling every remaining plan down to the journey home. Dettrick became wood carvinged, reducing the evening to coat, taxi, door. wood chipped adj. A drinker so far gone that the sitting room appears to have been mechanically reduced around them. wood chopped adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the bar's arguments as a competitive event with several rounds. wood choppered adj. Drunk by closing time, and applying blunt force to the problem of finding your coat. Osyris went wood choppered through the cloakroom, lifting every similar jacket in turn. wood cookied adj. Still drunk, and flattened by the evening into a small, portable account of yourself. wood cudweeded adj. Too drunk to distinguish the pub's closing announcements from gentle background foliage. wood dirted adj. Sufficiently drunk to leave a trail of receipts, crumbs and minor debris towards the door. wood docked adj. Having drunk enough to settle beside the nearest wall, as though moored there for the night. wood doved (/ˈwʊd dʌvd/) adj. Having drunk more than the return journey can reasonably carry, and cooing at strangers besides. wood draked adj. You have drunk enough to patrol the cloakroom, territorial and slightly overdressed. wood ducked adj. You are drunk and nesting wherever a coat, bench or unattended corner permits. Ishita became wood ducked beneath the bar coat and nested beside the umbrellas. wood eared adj. Of a drinker: listening only for last orders, taxi engines and the reassuring sound of keys. Caden-james was wood eared, turning sharply whenever the bar staff mentioned closing. wood elfed adj. Having drunk enough to claim woodland ancestry and issue confident instructions to ordinary furniture. wood engravinged adj. A drinker who records the route home in painstaking detail, then departs by another one. wood ferned adj. A drinker so far gone that the cloakroom has become a shaded woodland and the coat a natural shelter.