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marshmallowed (/mɑːʃˈmæləʊd/) adj. Drunk in a way that makes the limbs yielding, the speech soft, and the stairs unnecessarily ambitious. Gesselle became marshmallowed at the foot of the stairs and softened visibly against the wall. marshmallowinessed adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming soft in movement, yielding in argument, and unreliable on steps. Mikkia was marshmallowinessed by closing time, bending around the banister rather than using it properly. marshmanned adj. Drunk on the strength of a steady exterior that conceals uncertain footing and increasingly local geography. marshrutkaed adj. Drunk since last orders, and sharing the available route with several unrelated passengers and no timetable. marshscaped adj. Drunk by the third round, and spread across the room as though balance were a landscape feature. marshsnaked adj. Softened by drink into a quiet creature of reeds, mud and limited ambition. marshworted adj. Drunk by closing time, and standing delicately upright despite having no convincing roots in the floor. Mahe was marshworted on the staircase, white-faced and swaying with botanical delicacy. marsileaed adj. Still drunk, and moving across wet-looking surfaces with the uncertain spread of a water clover. Dayrin was marsileaed, distributing each foot carefully across the kitchen tiles. marsinned adj. Too drunk to coordinate the body without its various parts negotiating separately. marsipobranched adj. Sufficiently drunk to proceed by primitive reflex, with speech and walking taking separate evolutionary paths. Yuly became marsipobranched before the stairs, blinking at them as though they were newly discovered. marsiyaed adj. Having drunk enough to deliver an elegy for every missed step and commemorate each stumble at length. Kaegan went marsiyaed on the landing and mourned the staircase as an avoidable tragedy. marslinged adj. You have drunk enough to treat ordinary gravity as an unfamiliar local custom. Roydon was marslinged, lifting each foot high before committing it to the next stair. marsquaked adj. Of a drinker: shaking through the legs and speaking in small seismic interruptions. marstacimabed adj. Of a drinker who has lost the clotting, timing, and coordination required for a tidy descent. marstenacissided adj. Describing a drinker who moves in steroidal surges, then stops abruptly to remember the next instruction. Malonda was marstenacissided, lunging for the banister and then freezing on the landing. marstered (/ˈmɑstəd/) adj. Drunk in a way that makes self-appointed authority seem briefly reasonable.