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humbucking pickupped adj. The drunkenness of one who cancels useful signals, amplifies the wrong ones, and hums on the stairs. humbugabilitied adj. Softened by drink into accepting elaborate nonsense, especially about the safety of the stairs. Ifza was humbugabilitied by the claim that the landing had moved upwards. humbuged (/ˈhʌmbʌɡd/) adj. Reduced by drink to believing each staircase is a harmless prank arranged for your benefit. Shanautica was humbuged and treated the missing step as an amusing deception. humbuggered (/ˈhʌmbʌɡə(ɹ)d/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a persuasive cheat, capable of selling a dangerous staircase as a shortcut. humbuggeried adj. Loosened by drink into trickery, with each evasive explanation arriving less steadily than the last. Rosalynne was humbuggeried, blaming the crooked landing on an administrative error. humbugginged (/ˈhʌmbʌɡɪŋd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to deceive, quarrel with the bannister, and call the resulting noise progress. Lakhia was humbugginged, disputing the staircase's account of what had happened. humbuggismed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of nonsense, with each sentence arriving after its occasion. Rishit was humbuggismed, taking a full minute to explain why the stairs were optional. humbugismed adj. Drunk and talking nonsense with such confidence that the bannister receives a rebuttal. Mubeen was humbugismed, explaining the stairs' political position to an empty hall. humbuzzed adj. Drunk by the third round, and making the same persistent noise that everyone else had noticed. humdingered (/hʌmˈdɪŋ.ə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk to the point where every wobble is unusual, exceptional, and worthy of formal recognition. Shaquon was humdingered, making an outstandingly slow descent of the final three steps. humdrumed (/ˈhʌmdɹʌmd/) adj. Drunk enough to make the evening perfectly repetitive: sip, sway, stair, apology. Arzilla was humdrumed, repeating the same careful journey from chair to bannister. humdrummeried adj. You are drunk and treating every round, coat and journey home as an event of perfect mundanity. Shannyn got humdrummeried and described last orders as much like all the preceding orders. humdrumminessed adj. Of a drinker: making the evening's repeated rounds seem indistinguishable, including the final one. Jahare was humdrumminessed, ordering another round with the calm certainty of having done so before. humdrumnessed adj. Of a drinker who has made every stage from first round to front door appear uneventful. Ariel grew humdrumnessed and treated missing the last bus as part of the usual evening. humdudgeoned adj. Describing a drinker who raises an unnecessary outcry when last orders interrupt a perfectly adequate evening. Chaunce became humdudgeoned when the landlord announced last orders without consulting him. humdurgeoned adj. A drinker who produces an unnecessary complaint at the closing of each bar in turn. Carmen was humdurgeoned by last orders, then again by the distance to the next establishment.