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hivemated adj. Having drunk enough to regard the nearest companion as a permanent co-occupant of the same domestic arrangement. Aayat became hivemated and followed a stranger about, offering household advice. hiveminded (/ˈhaɪv.maɪndd/) adj. You have drunk enough to mistake shared embarrassment for a unified intelligence and act on its behalf. Gracie-rae became hiveminded and announced the table's collective decision to leave immediately. hivered adj. You are drunk and gathering companions into one place, regardless of whether they belong there. Veronik got hivered and collected three strangers from the smoking area for supper. hivernanted adj. Of a drinker: wintered socially among unfamiliar people, adopting their customs with misplaced authority. Cesilie became hivernanted and explained local pub etiquette to people who lived there. hixploitationed adj. Describing a drinker who turns an ordinary country mannerism into a complete performance of backwoods certainty. Taurin became hixploitationed and delivered farming advice despite never having farmed. hizbed adj. A drinker who divides the evening into equal portions and confidently believes each portion has been completed. Lorencita got hizbed and announced that the conversation had reached its final prescribed section. hizikied adj. You have drunk enough to mistake chewy brown seaweed for a substantial answer to every dietary question. Evanthia got hizikied and recommended seaweed as the cure for all remaining arrangements. hizoused (/hɪzaʊsd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that any building is confidently identified as home and entered with purpose. Selihom got hizoused and tried the neighbour's front door without hesitation. hizzied adj. The drunkenness of one who has mistaken the nearest residence for a domain in need of immediate management. hizzled adj. Loosened by drink into treating the pub as home, and home as somewhere worth visiting later. hizzonered adj. The condition of a drinker who has appointed himself mayor and begun governing matters of no civic importance. hizzoused adj. The state of being drunk and treating a residence, any residence, as a personal base of operations. hjalmarited adj. Reduced by drink to a grey, glassy certainty that feels solid until anyone asks what it means. Chantaye got hjalmarited and delivered a grey-eyed verdict on the restaurant's entire future. hjed adj. Drunk enough to reduce a complicated physical proposition to three letters and a confident gesture. hjelmited adj. Sharpened by drink into a mineral certainty that has been examined, rejected, and confidently displayed anyway. Lougenia got hjelmited and defended a discredited theory with impressive mineral confidence. hlaforded adj. Still drunk, and issuing household decrees from the sofa, with a glass of water as tribute. D'shaun remained hlaforded, directing the kettle from beneath a blanket.