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beehive shelfed adj. Drunk enough to support a roomful of fragile conversations without understanding any of them. Aryia was beehive shelfed, holding three conversations together with remarkable structural uncertainty. beehive tombed adj. Drunk past the point of leaving, enclosed beneath a rounded silence while companions wait outside it. Yeslin was beehive tombed in the corner, listening solemnly to voices no one else heard. beehived (/ˈbiːhaɪvd/) adj. Drunk and surrounded by a steadily enlarging crowd, all of whom have been given something to do. Icle was beehived at the wedding, with every guest assigned a task and a drink. beehivered adj. Drunk beyond usefulness but still guarding the communal drinks as though they were a private charge. Mackynzie was beehivered, protecting the bottles while forgetting which guests had ordered them. beehivinged adj. Drunk in a way that organises companions into a working colony around an unnecessary domestic project. Eliah grew beehivinged and recruited everyone to rearrange the cushions. beehooded adj. Drunk, with the result that personal identity gives way to a small, purposeful communal existence. Elliott-james became beehooded and addressed the whole table as one cooperative organism. beehooned adj. Drunk enough to regard every loose noodle as a sensible domestic repair. Anacia got beehooned and threaded noodles through the handle of the saucepan. beehoused adj. Drunk to a degree that turns the company into a noisy shelter requiring constant tending. Davene was beehoused, collecting guests around the kitchen and refusing to let anyone leave hungry. beeishnessed adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming industrious, communal, and faintly alarming to anyone seeking quiet. Jazahria was beeishnessed, assigning jobs to strangers who had only come for a drink. beejayed adj. Drunk since last orders, and convinced that an intimate anecdote belongs to the whole table. Jmya was beejayed and offered personal details to guests who had asked about the weather. beejed adj. Drunk on the strength of an intimate favour, and thereafter treating every bystander as a confidant. Raneen was beejed and disclosed the evening’s private arrangements to the coat stand. beejooed adj. Drunk by the third round, and moving with the small, determined aggression of a honey badger. Kennasyn went beejooed and confronted the staircase as though it had challenged her. beeked adj. Drunk by closing time, and still tending the company as though every guest might swarm. Shaunece was beeked, ushering friends towards taxis while misplacing her own coat. beekeeped adj. Drunk by the third round, and maintaining everyone’s social arrangements with sticky, unnecessary diligence. Madden was beekeeped, checking who had spoken to whom and assigning further introductions. beekeepered (/ˈbiˌkipɚd/) adj. Softened by drink into tending imaginary hives with considerable patience. Pocahontas spent twenty minutes explaining honey production to an empty chair, thoroughly beekeepered. beekeepinged adj. Sharpened by drink into attending to every small matter as though it might produce honey. Madysan became beekeepinged and inspected the table for signs of a hive.