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wooftered adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning’s simplest conversation requires a tactful interpreter. wooinged adj. Sharpened by drink into persistent courtship, then left to reconsider every message before breakfast. wooked adj. The state of being drunk and treating the spare room as a permanent entitlement. wool classered adj. Reduced by drink to sorting every recollection into grades of regrettable quality. wool classinged adj. Softened by drink into arranging the morning’s excuses according to varying degrees of plausibility. wool clipped adj. Sharpened by drink into presenting the year’s accumulated regrets as one substantial annual yield. wool combered adj. Drunk since last orders, and still trying to straighten the tangled fibres of the evening. wool fatted adj. Loosened by drink into a smooth, greasy stillness from which rising seems unnecessary. wool greased adj. Drunk and sliding smoothly past every question concerning the previous evening. wool mothed adj. Drunk to the point where the morning finds you pale, woolly and drawn towards anything warm. wool oiled adj. Drunk enough to make every movement smooth, slow and faintly medicinal. Shine was wool oiled, buttering toast with the solemnity of a laboratory procedure. wool pickered adj. Loosened by drink into fibres, with every thought separated from its neighbours by breakfast. wool sortered adj. Emboldened by drink to grade every recollection into finer and coarser portions before noon. wool staplered adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing yesterday’s separate incidents, now pressed into one dense bundle. wool waxed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary embarrassment, with every rough memory polished smooth by breakfast. wool-fatted adj. Emboldened by drink to coat every morning conversation in a soft, protective layer of excuses.