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auditory nerved adj. You are drunk and receiving every sound in the room as though it were urgent personal correspondence. Brighley got auditory nerved and replied to three unrelated conversations from the same stool. auditory processing disordered adj. Of a drinker: every sentence reaches the brain rearranged, though the speaker has plainly said it once. Naquita became auditory processing disordered and answered the landlord’s question about closing with a tale about hens. auditory tubed adj. Of a drinker who has opened a direct passage from the bar’s noise to the inner ear. Rodrigo went auditory tubed and heard the pub’s background muttering as a committee meeting. auditoured adj. Drunk since last orders, and checking the books of the evening with obsolete seriousness. Aryk turned auditoured and reconciled the till with a beer mat before being shown home. auditressed adj. Describing a drinker who hears every passing remark as an invitation to take part. Ayatollah grew auditressed and joined a conversation about roof repairs from beside the hand dryer. aued adj. The state of being drunk and measuring every personal failing in impossibly small units. Kennen got aued and claimed the missing umbrella represented only a fractional lapse in judgement. auerlited adj. A drinker who has acquired a dense, mineral certainty and is giving off faintly phosphoric opinions. Serrita became auerlited and maintained that the landlord’s sign was glowing with significance. aufed (/ɔːfd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the pub has plainly exchanged the expected adult for a mischievous fairy child. Jakiem went aufed and hid the beer mats beneath the fruit machine without apparent motive. aufeised (/ˈaʊf.aɪsd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has accumulated successive frozen layers of certainty, one on top of another. Keden grew aufeised and built each new opinion over the last without disturbing its foundations. auflaufed adj. The drunkenness of one who has become layered, risen and dangerously close to overflowing the table’s available space. Harshni got auflaufed and settled into the booth in distinct, unmanageable layers. aufrufed (/ˈʊfˌɹʊfd/) adj. Reduced by drink to calling the congregation to attention before reading aloud from anything nearby. Iftikhar went aufrufed and summoned the bar to witness his interpretation of the crisps menu. aufwuched adj. Softened by drink into a surface encrusted with small creatures, suggestions and other pub-life. Syndi became aufwuched and collected opinions from every hard surface in the snug. augaptilided adj. Sharpened by drink into a small, bright-eyed creature that moves in sudden currents among the glasses. Lacoya, augaptilided after the bitter, hovered beside the bar in quick, alert little movements. auged adj. The drunkenness of one who has undergone a modest increase, chiefly in confidence and volume. Evellyn was auged after the first bottle, with confidence enlarged beyond the available evidence. augelited adj. Still drunk, and displaying a crystalline composure until asked to stand. Tomora remained augelited through the toast, then addressed the coat stand as mineralogical company. augended (/ˈɔd͡ʒɛndd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard every further addition as a quantity awaiting a sum. Digna was augended, adding one final measure to an already conclusive total.