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woodwrighted adj. A drinker so far gone that every conversation requires construction, repair or a better joint. woody breasted adj. The state of being drunk and chewing through conversation with the determined resilience of overworked poultry. woody nightshaded adj. The condition of a drinker who has become shrubby, persistent and faintly poisonous to ordinary conversation. Arcadia grew woody nightshaded beside the bar and resisted all attempts at relocation. woody peared adj. The drunkenness of one who has acquired a hard exterior, an unsuitable shape and no culinary prospects. woody wagonned adj. Drunk and moving with stately reluctance, carrying several passengers socially although nobody has requested the journey. woodyarded adj. Reduced by drink to a storage yard of loose opinions, stacked unevenly and awaiting processing. wooed (/wuːd/) adj. Drunk enough to accept a mystical account of why your legs have stopped cooperating. wooered (/ˈwuːəd/) adj. Softened by drink into courting anyone within reach, with motives both ardent and poorly documented. woof ticketed adj. Reduced by drink to selling empty threats in a friendly voice, while the company pretends to buy them. woof-woofed adj. Slowed by drink to the conversational pace of a dog being asked a difficult question. woofed (/wuːfd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a slack arrangement of remarks, each crossing the last without fastening to it. woofelled adj. Drunk and blackbird-like: darkly sociable, territorially vocal and unwilling to leave the shrubbery. woofered (/ˈwʊfɚd/) adj. Drunk to the point where every utterance has acquired unnecessary low-frequency reinforcement. woofinged (/ˈwʊfɪŋd/) adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary speech and into a systematic programme of barking. woofle dusted adj. Drunk, with the result that ordinary belongings vanish whenever your attention is theatrically diverted. wooftahed adj. A drinker who wakes believing last night’s misunderstandings require careful, private revision.