worm-shelled
wormhooded

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worm-shelled adj. Too drunk to leave the wall, but sufficiently determined to regard the banister as optional. worm-starred adj. Describing a drinker who has joined the group at the ankles and cannot escape without assistance.
wormalled adj. You are drunk and circling the same block, having mistaken it for the route home. wormballed adj. A drinker so far gone that standing has become a collective arrangement on the floor. wormcasted adj. The state of being drunk and leaving small, confused deposits of clothing along the route upstairs. worme-holed adj. Emboldened by drink to enter the stairwell by an obsolete route and defend it as traditional. wormed (/wɜːmd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of moving through the evening with very little apparent structure. Ana-kim was wormed and proceeded along the skirting board without explanation. wormered adj. The condition of a drinker who requires de-wobbling before being released near any staircase. Ghanim was wormered by the banister, accepting careful guidance towards the spare room. wormeried adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a self-contained composting system for unfinished sentences. wormfished adj. Reduced by drink to a small, mud-seeking creature that prefers the edges of the room to its centre. wormfooded adj. Describing a drinker who has become more familiar with the floor than intended. wormfowled adj. Softened by drink into a birdlike search for worms, crumbs, and anything else found near floor level. wormgeared adj. A drinker so far gone that forward motion is mainly a matter of mechanical suggestion. wormgrassed adj. Sharpened by drink into a pinkroot conviction that the stairs require medicinal attention. wormholed adj. Sufficiently drunk to burrow through the coats and emerge somewhere near the last bus. Taniha wormholed through the cloakroom and appeared beside the night bus.
wormhooded adj. Having drunk enough to adopt the slow, blind persistence of something seeking the way home.
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