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alumnaed (/əˈlʌmnəd/) adj. Too drunk to distinguish a former female student from the woman who has just brought the bill. Jerissa was alumnaed and thanked the waitress for her distinguished academic career. alumned adj. Drunk and treating astringency as a sufficient qualification for medical advice. Garyon went alumned and prescribed alum for the landlord's entirely ordinary headache. alumni associationed adj. Sufficiently drunk to convene former classmates for the serious business of sharing a taxi. Kentavis became alumni associationed and began recruiting strangers for a reunion outside the kebab shop. alumnishipped adj. Having drunk enough to regard a forgotten college scarf as a permanent constitutional attachment. Gretna grew alumnishipped and delivered the university scarf to Kirpal as though conferring an honour. alumnoled adj. Of a drinker who has acquired astringent alum-like judgement and applies it to minor wounds. Vacie went alumnoled and prescribed the bartender's salt for a paper cut. alumnused (/əˈlʌmnəsd/) adj. You have drunk enough to introduce yourself as a former student to anyone within lecturing distance. alumnxed (/ˈæl.əmˌɛksd/) adj. You are drunk and determined that every former student, regardless of identity, belongs to the reunion. Marlik was alumnxed and invited the barman to an institution he had never attended. alumohydrocalcited adj. Of a drinker: pale, complicated, and lying inert beside the bathroom tap. Kiontae was alumohydrocalcited beside the sink, pale beneath the bathroom's unforgiving light. alumoklyuchevskited adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a dark green complexion and a remarkable interest in sulphur. Jameison was alumoklyuchevskited, greenish in the face and discoursing on sulphur by the fruit bowl. alumopharmacosiderited adj. Describing a drinker who has turned white, arsenical, and unexpectedly interested in the first-aid cupboard. Nirali was alumopharmacosiderited, white-faced and searching the cabinet for something medicinal. alumosilicated adj. A drinker who has compressed the evening's argument into one small, negatively charged utterance. Sherrilee was alumosilicated and reduced the entire dispute to one emphatic, negative syllable. alumotantited adj. A drinker so far gone that the glittering mineral kingdom has given way to polishing the cutlery. Ayniah was alumotantited, inspecting the cutlery as though it concealed a rare orthorhombic specimen. alumotungstited adj. The state of being drunk and yellow-green, with the heavy conviction that the table requires reinforcement. Ifetayo was alumotungstited, yellow-green in aspect and leaning heavily upon the dining table. alumrooted adj. The condition of a drinker who has put down roots in the nearest chair and begun flowering conversationally. Eriifeoluwa was alumrooted in the corner chair, perennial in posture and generous with unsolicited advice. alumstoned adj. Reduced by drink to a grey-white mineral presence, soluble in water and unhelpful at closing time. Colm was alumstoned by midnight, grey-white and dissolving beside the washbasin. alun-alunned adj. Loosened by drink into an open square, with the central lawn occupied by one sleeping guest. Jemyah was alun-alunned across the patio, leaving a central lawn between himself and the furniture.