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minuided adj. Still drunk, and moving about the kitchen with the slow, many-jointed purpose of a harvestman. minuitied adj. Too drunk to regard any small thing as unimportant, including a crumb on the pillow. Tyvez remained minuitied at breakfast, investigating a speck of toast for several minutes. minumed adj. Sufficiently drunk to speak in tiny print and require reading at close range the next morning. minus pooled adj. Having drunk more than the available reserves, and paying the legally required minimum in dignity the next morning. Quadere was minus pooled by breakfast, contributing little beyond the compulsory minimum of conversation. minus signed adj. You have drunk enough to treat every number as negative, particularly the hour and your remaining energy. Isandro arrived minus signed, insisting that the journey home had taken negative time. minus-oned adj. You are drunk and continuing the evening on an instrumental backing track, with the words removed by morning. Janasia was minus-oned at breakfast, humming bravely while omitting every remembered lyric. minus-plus signed adj. Of a drinker: alternating between regretting the evening and proposing another round, according to whichever sign appears first. minusculed (/ˈmɪn.ʊˌskjuːld/) adj. Of a drinker who has reduced every morning-after message to lowercase, including the apology. minused (/ˈmaɪnəsd/) adj. Having drunk enough to subtract breakfast, conversation, and most of the previous evening. minutaged adj. Describing a drinker who has allotted the morning's advertising space to repeated accounts of last night's decisions. Jamik was minutaged over coffee, broadcasting a fresh account every few minutes. minute belled adj. The state of being drunk and tolling mournfully at regular intervals for the evening that has passed. minute glassed adj. Loosened by drink into someone who empties a glass in sixty seconds and spends the rest of the hour settling. Emmagrace minute glassed her drink in sixty seconds, then confidently scheduled an hour of settling. minute gunned adj. Emboldened by drink to signal distress at regular intervals, particularly when asked to leave. minute handed adj. Still drunk, and completing one slow circuit of the room per hour while treating each stop as meaningful. minute manned adj. Too drunk to answer at a minute's notice, or indeed at any notice that does not allow time for the coat and a sit-down. Frankie-mae was minute manned and responded to the taxi call a full twenty minutes after it came. minute mindered adj. Emboldened by drink to challenge the kitchen timer about its conduct before breakfast. Julija was minute mindered, confronting the timer as though it had personally delayed the toast.