I suspect fleuthered may have some celtic basis from the things I know of the parentage of the person who engraved that word on my mind WAY BACK in high school. So I can only speak to what I was able to gather from the usage of the term one single time on a particular occasion I remember well.

BTW I believe it is NOT correct to say one "fleuthers." Nor has one BEEN fleuthered... rather, one IS fleuthered. (Ex.: "Man! I think I may be just a bit fleuthered!") And although I have never seen it in print, nor even heard it since, I am confident that the correct spelling is fleu-, not flue-. Though it is pron. FLOO-third.

As used in my presence, it referred to a pleasant, silly, perhaps airy mood induced by just the right type and amount of alcohol. I imagine there was a scale of words of which this word was but a part, in terms of one's progress from upright sobriety to fully gutterzontal (new word!! good girrrrllll!).

To be Mud-fleuthered would be to have had that effect from posting and reading posts when there is a cross-posting free-for-all going on, just before the flames are rolled out to spoil it.

Now, if we are free to enter material from our own family's dialects, the state of disgust you described earlier would be better approximated by one favorite of ours: "I'm gomorrahfied!" To which the proper response would be, "And I am mocked!" This would aslo be the appropriate ejaculation when caught in a case of extreme ridiculosity. If caught in complete stupidity (by oneself, for others never seem to notice as acutely), the expression I coined today (yesterday??!) was "O-mi-DUH!" (in replacement of the overused OmiGOD).

Amos says a certain type of back-road exploring is called shun-piking; creative use of PMs would be, of course, shun-threading.

~Susan