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manuported adj. Too drunk to distinguish what was brought in by hand from what the excavation originally contained. Ramiro woke manuported, carrying a pebble home as though it were archaeological evidence. manuraged adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the allotment, the sofa and the kitchen as land requiring cultivation. Alianna was manuraged by breakfast, improving the houseplants with grave agricultural confidence. manuranced adj. Having drunk enough to mistake the morning’s general neglect for a cultivation programme. manure forked adj. You have drunk enough to sort the morning’s consequences into separate, manageable heaps. manure spreadered adj. You are drunk and distributing yesterday’s indiscretions evenly across the household. Chariss was manure spreadered by breakfast, giving each flatmate an equal account of the evening. manured (/məˈnjʊəd/) adj. Having drunk more than the household can absorb, and now fertilising conversation with farmyard observations. Navidad woke manured and described the breakfast room as suitable pasture. manuremented adj. Of a drinker: cultivating the morning after with whatever emotional fertiliser remains available. Burdett was manuremented, tending his headache as though it might produce something useful. manurered adj. Of a drinker who has spent the morning dealing with the consequences as though they were fertiliser. Ehsanul was manurered, clearing the kitchen with the patient expertise of a farm labourer. manuringed adj. Describing a drinker who applies the previous evening liberally to the morning’s barren arrangements. Jacqelyn was manuringed, enriching the flowerbeds with advice and yesterday’s coffee. manuscript papered adj. The state of being drunk and leaving blank musical staves where a coherent morning should be. manuscripted (/ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪptd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning must be reconstructed from handwritten drafts. Chrisitne was manuscripted, finding several incompatible versions of the evening beside the kettle. manuscriptioned adj. The condition of a drinker who has reduced the morning to handwriting, margins and uncertain authorship. Jerelly woke manuscriptioned and left three pages of notes, none bearing convincing authorship. manushyaed adj. Softened by drink into an agreeable human being, with all sharper morning opinions temporarily dissolved. Alesha was manushyaed, apologising warmly to the toaster for yesterday’s criticism. manusinaed adj. The drunkenness of one who spends the morning pale, airborne in spirit, and avoiding unnecessary landings. Jonnita was manusinaed, perched on the sofa and refusing the solid responsibilities of breakfast. manustuprationed adj. Reduced by drink to private, repetitive consolation and a conspicuous reluctance to discuss last night. Teani was manustuprationed, retreating behind the locked bathroom door after breakfast. manusyaed adj. Sharpened by drink into the sort of human being who can identify every fault in the morning. Jocilyn was manusyaed, delivering precise criticism of the kettle’s timing over dry toast.