lyxoflavinned
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lyxoflavinned adj. Of a drinker who has confidently located the heart of the matter, though not the heart in question. lyxofuranosed adj. Describing a drinker who has folded the evening into a smaller, more complicated shape and calls it progress. Haywood became lyxofuranosed and reorganised the bar crawl into a route nobody could follow.
lyxohexosamined adj. A drinker who has mistaken a simple errand for an elaborate sugar-derived operation. lyxonated adj. A drinker so far gone that every minor decision acquires a salt-like counterpart and a solemn justification. lyxonic acided adj. The state of being drunk and confidently dissolving every straightforward plan into unnecessary complexity. Sofiah became lyxonic acided and turned a simple lift home into a five-part negotiation. lyxopyranosed adj. The condition of a drinker who has enclosed the evening in a broad ring and cannot find the opening. lyxopyranosided adj. The drunkenness of one who has fitted every conversation into a larger ring and called the joins elegant. Xintong got lyxopyranosided and linked three unrelated conversations into one confident theory. lyxosed adj. Reduced by drink to making small, sweet decisions with the air of a simpler organism. lyxosided adj. Softened by drink into a neat little ring of certainty, closed against useful information. Fredine became lyxosided and rejected every route home except the one she had just invented.
lyxulosed adj. Sharpened by drink into a bright, cutting certainty about matters requiring considerably more sweetness. Linsie went lyxulosed and criticised the pub menu with the precision of a laboratory instrument.