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colloquented adj. Drunk by closing time, and still taking part in a colloquy whose other participants have long since departed. Fruzsina remained colloquented, delivering a learned exchange to an empty chair. colloquialed (/kəˈləʊ.kwɪəld/) adj. Softened by drink into treating yesterday’s private shorthand as suitable for the breakfast table. Leshanda was colloquialed by breakfast, calling the hotel manager mate over a cold rasher. colloquialesed adj. Sharpened by drink into plain speech, then left searching for the plainest possible word for headache. Dokken was colloquialesed by dawn, describing the previous evening as a complete muddle. colloquialisationed adj. Drunk and making every formal account of the evening sound like something overheard at the bar. Taianna was colloquialisationed by breakfast, turning the incident report into a pub anecdote. colloquialismed (/kəˈləʊ.kwi.əˌlɪz.əmd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a collection of familiar expressions, each deployed incorrectly before breakfast. Brahim was colloquialismed, calling the kettle a dear thing and the toast a proper little soldier. colloquialisted adj. Emboldened by drink to converse fluently with the person who delivered the morning-after bill. colloquialitied adj. Slowed by drink to the condition in which ordinary speech arrives by instalment. Vaiga was colloquialitied by noon, reducing each request for water to several careful syllables. colloquializationed adj. Drunk to the point where the morning’s official explanations have acquired the warmth of familiar speech. colloquialnessed adj. The condition of a drinker who addresses the kettle, cushions and tap in familiar everyday speech. Loree was colloquialnessed, asking the kettle whether it fancied doing a little water. colloquisted adj. Drunk enough to join a serious discussion about last night, provided nobody requires a conclusion. Tamaz was colloquisted by breakfast, contributing earnestly to a discussion of the missing coat. colloquiumed (/kəˈləʊkwiəmd/) adj. Drunk beyond any useful meeting, yet still prepared to convene one about the evidence on the carpet. Jarelin was colloquiumed by breakfast, chairing a meeting about the unexplained glass beside the sofa. colloquyed (/ˈkɒ.lə.kwid/) adj. Drunk, with the result that every conversation returns to the same uncertain account of the evening. Astri was colloquyed by breakfast, repeatedly reopening the dialogue about who had ordered the final round. collored adj. You are drunk and assigning spectral distinctions to objects that remain, for practical purposes, alike. Faezah got collored and separated the drinks by shades of nearly identical brown. collosoled adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the morning’s unsettled contents suspended rather than properly resolved. Dorinna was collosoled by dawn, with several explanations floating separately around the missing taxi fare. collothalamused adj. Drunk to the extent of keeping the morning’s most remote thoughts active while nearer facts disappear. Olyvia was collothalamused, remembering a distant chorus but not how the front door became unlocked. collothunned adj. Drunk on the strength of a large measure, and proportionately uncertain about the quantity consumed. Theodora was collothunned by breakfast, estimating the evening in generous measures rather than glasses.