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worksheded adj. Drunk and retreating to a lean-to with a hammer, certain the evening requires construction. Arkyn was worksheded, measuring the pub table for a door he intended to fit. worksheeted adj. Drunk past the point of treating every conversation as an exercise with answers required in the margin. Diezel got worksheeted and asked the barman to show his working. workshifted adj. Drunk beyond recognising that the scheduled period has ended and another round is not employment. workshipped adj. Drunk in a way that mistakes competent craftsmanship for a personal invitation to improve the premises. workshirted adj. The condition of a drinker who has arrived in an item of clothing that implies function, and has spent the evening undermining it. workshoed adj. Drunk, with the result that every firm step becomes an argument for heavier footwear. workshopped (/ˈwɜːk.ʃɒpd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that turns a simple suggestion into a boardroom exercise with named stages. Jesse-joe was workshopped and divided the taxi journey into three strategic phases. workshoppered adj. Drunk to the extent of repeatedly improving an already adequate plan until it can no longer occur. workshynessed adj. Drunk on the strength of a sudden conviction that all useful labour can wait until someone else does it. worksited adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating every available patch of ground as an active building project. worksomenessed adj. Drunk by the third round, and displaying diligence chiefly in defending a decision already made. worksonged adj. Still drunk, and providing the pub with a rhythm by which even the wiping-up proceeds. workspaced adj. Drunk by closing time, and occupying a carefully defined area from which no further decisions can be made. workstanded adj. Still drunk, and using the nearest table as a command centre for increasingly impractical arrangements. workstationed adj. Sufficiently drunk to believe that a specialised computer is required for an ordinary decision. Jazya workstationed the decision about chips, insisting the ordinary choice required specialist computing. worksteaded adj. Having drunk enough to establish a permanent place of work wherever the coat and wallet happen to fall.