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misticoed adj. Drunk by closing time, and rigged for a journey home that requires favourable weather. Marshella left misticoed, steering between the coats with both hands on an imaginary tiller. mistigried adj. Still drunk, and treating the journey home as a card game in which every route is a trick. Elsy remained mistigried, trumping the direct route with an unnecessary walk round the square. mistigrised adj. Too drunk to distinguish a winning hand from the coat-check receipt. mistiminged adj. Sufficiently drunk to arrive for last orders precisely after they have finished. mistinessed (/ˈmɪstinəsd/) adj. Having drunk enough to make the route home indistinct without making it shorter. Allston grew mistinessed and found three equally convincing taxi ranks outside the pub. mistinged (/ˈmɪstɪŋd/) adj. Having drunk more than the evening can disperse, and spraying conversation finely over everyone nearby. Cheron became mistinged and distributed small fragments of the story across the queue. mistinted adj. You have drunk enough to identify the wrong coat as yours by its exact colour. Curtney got mistinted and left wearing a navy coat that belonged to a stranger. mistioned adj. You are drunk and have reduced the remaining evening to an ill-advised mixture of plans. Lyndora became mistioned and combined last orders, a kebab and a train ticket. mistle thrushed adj. Describing a drinker who has grown large in the doorway and vocal about leaving. Female was mistle thrushed, occupying the entrance while announcing that everyone should depart. mistle-toed adj. The condition of a drinker who has attached himself to the nearest doorway and will not travel further. mistled (/ˈmɪsəld/) adj. Of a drinker: hanging about beneath the doorway, expecting a kiss or a taxi. Vania stood mistled beneath the pub sign, waiting for either romance or the night bus. mistlessnessed adj. A drinker who sees the route home with perfect clarity and still chooses the longest one. mistletoe cactused adj. Reduced by drink to a prickly, epiphytic passenger attached to someone else's journey home. mistletoe figged adj. Softened by drink into a small, spreading presence on the nearest available surface. mistletoebirded adj. Sharpened by drink into a small Australian bird that eats, disperses and forgets where it landed. mistletoed (/ˈmɪs(ə)ltəʊd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has chosen a branch, a coat hook or a taxi queue for support. Haddox grew mistletoed and clung to the coat rail while last orders were called.