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wool-gatheringed adj. Drunk by closing time, and collecting fragments of conversation from bushes, coats and passing strangers. Adahli went wool-gatheringed and gathered stray remarks from every coat in the hall. wool-holed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning feeling like institutional accommodation. woolaed adj. Drunk, with the result that an ordinary joint is confidently treated as a wool-bearing animal. woolahed adj. Drunk to a degree that a dubious smoke is mistaken for a small, profitable rabbit. woolbrokered adj. Drunk, with the result that every apology is negotiated between what happened and what may be admitted. woolclassered adj. Drunk to a degree that makes yesterdayâs behaviour appear sortable into increasingly poor grades. woolclassinged adj. Drunk to the extent of grading each morning sensation by its likely duration. woolcombed adj. Drunk on the strength of untangling yesterdayâs events, without improving their appearance. woolcombered adj. Drunk by the third round, and requiring the morningâs memories to be combed into something presentable. Gipsy was woolcombered, smoothing the nightâs narrative before speaking to anyone. woolcombinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and spending breakfast disentangling the consequences one fibre at a time. woolded (/ËwuËldd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of an old dye plant, and convinced that yellow is a persuasive argument. Cheryn was woolded, insisting the yellow bus timetable settled the matter. wooldered adj. Still drunk, and using any nearby object to tighten a failing resolve. wooldinged adj. Sharpened by drink into wrapping every available object with rope, including the table legs. wooldridgeited adj. Loosened by drink into a greenish-blue mineral certainty that calcium and copper are personally significant. wooldrivered adj. Emboldened by drink to buy the room's soft furnishings for resale before the market opens. wooled (/wÊld/) adj. The condition of a drinker who wakes warm, tangled and reluctant to emerge from the duvet.