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wood finishinged adj. The state of being drunk and applying a final, protective coat to an evening already complete. wood floured adj. The condition of a drinker who has been reduced to fine particles by successive rounds and scattered towards home. wood foxed adj. Reduced by drink to a sly, grey wanderer seeking the safest route past the last bus. wood frogged adj. Softened by drink into a woodland creature, content to sit still until transport appears. wood garlicked adj. Loosened by drink into pungent friendliness, particularly while sharing the last taxi home. Roshell got wood garlicked and invited the entire queue to continue drinking at hers. wood gassed adj. Too drunk to distinguish a respectable fuel from the smoky products of a timber fire. wood glued adj. Sufficiently drunk to adhere to the nearest conversation with the tenacity of a synthetic adhesive. wood groused adj. Having drunk enough to perform the capercaillie’s solemn display before an increasingly indifferent audience. wood gummed adj. You have drunk enough to mistake a structural carbohydrate for an acceptable subject of personal disclosure. wood hedgehoged adj. You are drunk and presenting a prickly, edible exterior which encourages neither handling nor refusal. wood hewered adj. Drunk to the point where splitting the kindling seems a reasonable preparation for bed. Clarsie got wood hewered and attacked the logs beside the sitting-room fire. wood hoopoed adj. Of a drinker: noisily crested, long-billed in manner, and inclined to make the room’s furniture resemble a tree. wood horsetailed adj. Of a drinker who has become botanically vertical, jointed, and difficult to persuade away from damp ground. wood hyacinthed adj. Describing a drinker who has flowered blue beside the wall and shows little prospect of immediate relocation. Floryn was wood hyacinthed by closing time, decorative but firmly rooted beside the bar. wood ibised adj. A drinker who has acquired the long-legged, misplaced confidence of a stork claiming scholarly status. wood leadered adj. A drinker so far gone that he volunteers for structural labour without identifying the mine, the props, or the danger.