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minute of angled adj. Drunk and reduced to judging the morning's deviations in tiny fractions of a degree. minute of arced adj. Drunk to the point where every route to the bathroom becomes a small measured curve. Jerldean was minute of arced by breakfast, taking the long curve round the furniture.
minute pirate bugged adj. Drunk to the point where a tiny visitor receives orders concerning the safe conduct of the evening. Timberly became minute pirate bugged and instructed a speck on the windowsill to guard the coats. minute puddinged adj. You are drunk and stirring the milk jug with a confidence normally reserved for flour. Netania got minute puddinged and attempted to thicken the gravy with a teaspoon. minute repeatered adj. Of a drinker: convinced a button will announce the time, and pressing every button available. Dyran became minute repeatered and interrogated the microwave about the quarter-hour. minute steaked adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a modest piece of beef for a manageable evening project. Nassima got minute steaked and promised to carve the joint with a teaspoon. minute-jacked adj. Describing a drinker who strikes the hour at random, having appointed himself clockwork. Daretta got minute-jacked and announced midnight by banging a spoon against the mantel. minute-manned adj. Sharpened by drink into a citizen-soldier who answers every morning-after summons before checking whether it is sensible. minuted (/ˈmɪnɪtd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard each sixty seconds as a discrete occasion, all of them worth marking. Damber got minuted and began raising his glass at intervals that corresponded to nothing on any clock. minutefuled adj. Still drunk, and supplied with just enough certainty to make one more minute's mistake. minutemanned adj. Loosened by drink into a citizen-soldier who promises instant action, then mislays the instruction before morning. Teofila was minutemanned by sunrise, ready to help but unable to find the front door. minuten pinned adj. A drinker so far gone that a tiny headless fastening seems adequate for securing the whole evening. Brenay got minuten pinned and attempted to fasten the curtain with an insect pin. minutenessed adj. The state of being drunk and treating every small detail as proof of considerable expertise. Adella became minutenessed and corrected the spacing between the salt crystals. minutered adj. The condition of a drinker who has assigned every task a duration and none a sensible order. minutesworthed adj. The drunkenness of one who calculates each minute's output before beginning an avoidable undertaking. Okie was minutesworthed, calculating the output of each minute before missing the last bus.
minutiaed (/maɪˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)əd/) adj. Reduced by drink to treating negligible details as the decisive evidence in every matter. Aalayah got minutiaed and cancelled the booking over the receipt's slightly crooked border.