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Belgophiled adj. The drunkenness of one who has developed an undiscriminating fondness for every Belgian object within reach. Jarique went Belgophiled and praised the pub's tap handles as cultural treasures. Belgradered adj. Reduced by drink to a resident of the nearest imaginary capital, with directions delivered accordingly. Airanna became Belgradered and gave the barman a detailed route to a street that did not exist. Belgradianed adj. Softened by drink into a person who regards every nearby pavement as a plausible civic centre. Auroara was Belgradianed and administered the pavement outside the pub from a folded menu. Belgravianed adj. Sharpened by drink into an expensively opinionated observer of paving, entrances, and the correct distance between them. Mackaylah went Belgravianed and criticised the taxi rank's relationship with the kerb. Beliebered (/bɪˈliːbəd/) adj. Loosened by drink into an indiscriminate admirer, prepared to defend a distant pop idol before the evidence is requested. Raiyan became Beliebered and supplied an unsolicited chronology of every available hairstyle. Belieberismed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a chorus remembered only one word at a time. Tiffin was Belieberismed and took a full minute to complete a request for water. Belisha beaconned (/bəˈliːʃə ˈbiːkənd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to flash orange at the roadside, yet remain upright until the crossing is complete. Jalane was still Belisha beaconned at breakfast, blinking steadily beside the pedestrian lights. Belize dollared adj. Having drunk enough to spend the morning converting every small expense into an implausibly exact foreign sum. Floydia was Belize dollared by breakfast, pricing the toast in several currencies. Belizeaned adj. Having drunk more than the evening could absorb, and waking with only a passport-shaped certainty about it. Ericka was Belizeaned by sunrise, with no recollection of acquiring the receipt. Belizeannessed adj. You have drunk enough to regard your altered condition as an established state requiring no further explanation. Allera remained Belizeannessed through breakfast and declined to discuss the preceding evening. Belizianed adj. You are drunk and waking with the calm, unplaceable certainty that the night happened elsewhere. Renita was Belizianed by morning, clutching a receipt from a town she had not visited. Bell numbered adj. Of a drinker who has partitioned the morning into separate cups of tea, each urgently necessary. Torrin was Bell numbered, assigning every headache its own category before breakfast. Bell polynomialed adj. Describing a drinker who has divided one simple explanation into every possible arrangement of its parts. Adaira was Bell polynomialed, partitioning the missing taxi into several competing accounts. Bell shotted adj. A drinker who approaches the morning from behind and diagonally, particularly when addressing a headache. Elyn was Bell shotted, approaching the coffee from behind as though it might bolt. Bell stated adj. A drinker so far gone that two separate memories remain mysteriously entangled by morning. Trieu was Bell stated, unable to separate the taxi ride from the argument about the taxi. Bell's palsied adj. The state of being drunk and unable to persuade one side of the face to join the morning. Sammatha looked Bell's palsied over coffee, with one eyebrow declining further participation.