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mid youthed adj. Drunk on the strength of occupying an uncertain age bracket, and making this everybody’s subject. mid-Aprilled adj. Drunk past the point of dressing for the weather rather than the calendar. mid-Augusted adj. Drunk beyond considering whether an unbuttoned shirt is appropriate to the temperature. Zakiyyah became mid-Augusted and left the pub dressed for a warmer country. mid-Decembered adj. Drunk in a way that makes winter clothing seem briefly administrative. mid-Februaried adj. Drunk to a degree that suits neither one thing nor the other — past celebrating, not yet recovering. Hasty arrived mid-Februaried and proceeded to stand near the radiator without explaining himself. mid-Januaried adj. Drunk and convinced that the coldest month is an administrative obstacle rather than a reason to go indoors. Charlyze was mid-Januaried outside last orders, arguing that the taxi could come to her. mid-Julied adj. Drunk to the point where the warm-weather journey home requires a sung itinerary and several unnecessary detours. Danny-james was mid-Julied by the station, singing the route home while following the wrong platform. mid-Juned adj. Drunk enough to regard a mild June night as an invitation to prolong the walk home indefinitely. Ballarie was mid-Juned after closing, taking the scenic route home because the evening seemed unfinished. mid-Marched adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a March coat from a theatrical prop during the journey home. mid-Mayed adj. Of a drinker: seasonally misplaced, insisting that spring has reached its administrative midpoint. mid-Novembered adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the first chill for the official commencement of winter. mid-Octobered adj. Describing a drinker who has reached the season's administrative centre and begun discussing pumpkins as policy. Jessimae was mid-Octobered, treating every fallen leaf as evidence for a larger argument. mid-Septembered adj. A drinker who has reached the part of the evening where summer confidence has given way to careful footing. Claron became mid-Septembered before the pudding, walking home as though autumn had altered the pavement. mid-aired adj. A drinker so far gone that gravity has become a provisional arrangement. mid-autumned adj. The state of being drunk and seasonally transitional, with leaves, weather and judgement all in decline. mid-canopied adj. The drunkenness of one who has stationed himself beneath the centre of a covering and declared it architecture. Myrka was mid-canopied, sheltering beneath an umbrella indoors with scholarly conviction.