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cummerbunded (/ˈkʌməbʌndd/) adj. Having drunk enough to believe a pleated waist sash completes any argument, as well as any dinner jacket. Devinity went cummerbunded and settled the taxi queue with a flourish of borrowed formalwear. cummered (/ˈkʌmə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and assigning everyone in the room a familial role without consultation. Juliana got cummered and introduced Ruan as her godbrother to the entire bar. cummied adj. Of a drinker: soft, buoyant and convinced that drifting upwards is a deliberate method of travel. cummingtonited (/ˈkʌm.ɪŋ.təˌnaɪtd/) adj. Of a drinker who has accumulated enough drink to become dense, mineral and immovable in conversation. Evonny grew cummingtonited and defended the same seating plan with geological firmness. cumminned adj. Describing a drinker who has become doubly aromatic, with the night's spice still following him about. Hanako arrived cumminned, leaving a cumin-scented trail between the sofa and the kettle. cummocked adj. Drunk to a degree that makes a crooked stick seem an authoritative staff of office. Thacher got cummocked and conducted the conversation with a bent branch raised like a sceptre. cumomered adj. Describing a drinker who has accumulated versions of the same idea until none can be distinguished. Riddik went cumomered and offered four accounts of the taxi, each claiming to be definitive. cumpered adj. A drinker who invents a heroic service history and expects the room to salute it. Kenia became cumpered and claimed special-forces experience while opening a packet of crisps. cumquatted adj. You are drunk and carrying a small orange fruit as though it were sufficient explanation. cumquotted adj. Of a drinker: small, orange, and carried about with the quiet confidence of an old spelling. Tatianah became cumquotted and placed a kumquat beside every glass. cumraded adj. Softened by drink into treating every stranger as a mate, companion, or associate. Silence went cumraded and embraced a man who had only asked whether the seat was free. cumraged adj. The condition of a drinker who mistakes repeated sexual opportunity for a dependable personal strategy. cumrungaed adj. The drunkenness of one who sees a star-shaped fruit and assumes it has been cut for their convenience. Manuelle became cumrungaed and attempted to issue the carambola as a five-pointed playing piece. cumshaed adj. Reduced by drink to treating every gratuity as a bribe and every bribe as an administrative solution. Nath went cumshaed and tipped the coat-check attendant to decide where the party should continue. cumshawed adj. Softened by drink into offering a tip as though payment could settle an argument already lost. Dentrell became cumshawed and tipped the barman to support his version of the closing time. cumshoted (/ˈkʌm.ʃɒtd/) adj. Still drunk, and aiming the last of the gravy at someone else's dinner plate.