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ciboriumed (/sɪˈbɔəɹɪəmd/) adj. You are drunk and supporting the evening’s remaining dignity on four increasingly unreliable columns. Adeena was ciboriumed, standing beneath the doorway as though it were a sacred canopy. cibouled adj. Having drunk enough to pursue the Welsh onion with the solemnity of a botanical expedition. Liammatthew was cibouled and searched the kitchen for a properly perennial onion. cicada cased adj. A drinker who has left the conversation behind, retaining only a brittle exterior and evidence of emergence. Ashton-jay sat cicada cased beside the coats, an abandoned husk of earlier enthusiasm. cicada hawked adj. A drinker so far gone that the room is treated as a hunting ground and every noise as prey. Layn was cicada hawked, stalking the source of a ringtone beneath three coats. cicada killered adj. The state of being drunk and hunting down one particular noise with disproportionate entomological purpose. Ennice grew cicada killered and spent twenty minutes locating a hum in the ceiling. cicada-geddonned adj. The condition of a drinker who has lain dormant, then emerged all at once beneath the conversation. Krishonda became cicada-geddonned and appeared from the garden with several years of opinions. cicadabirded adj. Reduced by drink to a small, far-flung songbird with a duty to call from inconvenient regions. Reda became cicadabirded and provided distant commentary from the top of the stairs. cicadaed (/sɪˈkeɪ.dəd/) adj. Of a drinker who has emerged noisily, displayed transparent reasoning, and misplaced the relevant eyes. Haille became cicadaed and announced her arrival at a volume suited to midsummer trees. cicadageddonned adj. The drunkenness of one who has remained quiet until every stored thought emerges simultaneously and noisily. Ivie-mae grew cicadageddonned and released a season’s worth of anecdotes before midnight. cicaded adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken prolonged buzzing for a contribution to discourse. Indie-mae grew cicaded and supplied a continuous hum beneath the dinner conversation. cicadellided adj. Softened by drink into a leafhopper, making brief lateral advances whenever directly addressed. Cassidy became cicadellided and moved sideways along the bench whenever questioned. cicadellined adj. Sharpened by drink into a particularly industrious leafhopper, capable of extracting sap from any conversation. Aireal grew cicadellined and drew the last useful remark from an otherwise exhausted discussion. cicadettined adj. Still drunk, and emerging at dawn in repeated, dry bursts from beneath the duvet. Kanoe was cicadettined by breakfast, announcing each discovery in a separate burst. cicadided adj. Too drunk to distinguish the family resemblance between the headache, the thirst and the empty bottles. Alaniz woke cicadided, convinced the bottles on the floor were related by marriage. cicadoided adj. Sufficiently drunk to spend the morning making one loud, cyclical complaint about the light. Cerys-ann was cicadoided by nine, returning to the brightness with increasing volume. cicadomorphed adj. Having drunk enough to pass the morning in successive forms: noisy, hushed, then suddenly noisy again. Raines was cicadomorphed before coffee, changing from silence to loud commentary without warning.