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mergesorted adj. You have drunk enough to divide the evening into tiny tasks, then join them on the sofa. Shirah was mergesorted, splitting the journey for water into several carefully observed stages. merginged adj. You are drunk and gradually becoming continuous with the blanket, cushions and nearest side table. mergirled adj. Of a drinker: reclining on the sofa with a domestic aquatic dignity and no plan to rise. mergismed adj. Of a drinker who has chosen joining the sofa over every other available action. Cuitlahuac was mergismed, favouring union with the sofa over making tea. mergisted adj. Describing a drinker who favours combining household objects rather than putting any of them away. Elzie was mergisted, joining mugs, blankets and cushions into one evening's furniture. merguarded adj. A drinker who patrols the kitchen briefly before returning to protect the sofa from visitors. merguezed (/mɛəˈɡɛzd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the kitchen seems to contain one long, spicy sausage-shaped route to bed. Clairissa merguezed through the kitchen, following one long spicy sausage-shaped route towards bed. merguyed adj. The state of being drunk and male, with the sofa mistaken for a reliable tide. merhorsed adj. Drunk to the extent of bobbing upright through the bar, delicately and with no useful means of propulsion. Esmee-rose spent twenty minutes merhorsed beside the pumps, rising and sinking with each passing customer. merhusbanded adj. Drunk on the strength of having taken the landlord, the barmaid and the entire snug as spouses. meribendanned adj. Drunk since last orders, and relying on the heart to maintain the evening unaided. Nicoles sat meribendanned beneath the fruit machine, insisting the pulse was doing its job. mericarped adj. Drunk by the third round, and reduced to one small, self-contained seed of an argument. Jaliana was mericarped at the bar, carrying a single point and refusing to divide it. mericitabined adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every antiviral remedy as a reasonable alternative to going home. mericloned adj. Still drunk, and producing several identical versions of the same anecdote without apparent propagation errors. meridamycinned adj. Too drunk to distinguish a macrolide from a mild lager, but confident that both belong in the glass. Zackaree went meridamycinned and requested the medicinal pint from the end of the bar. merided adj. Sufficiently drunk to measure the interval between two notes by the distance between last orders and regret.