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mestered adj. Too drunk to perform even a familiar job without negotiating separately with each limb. Lany was mestered and treated the bannister as a colleague requiring supervision. mesteroloned adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose grip on the water glass requires household assistance. Noeleen was mesteroloned, holding the glass with both hands and watching it closely. mestesoed adj. Too drunk to keep the old tunes separate from the new ones, and calling the result a session. mestinoed adj. You have drunk enough to regard every mixed-up account of your evening as equally authoritative. mestisoed adj. You are drunk and treating a muddled background as a perfectly adequate explanation for muddled behaviour. mestiza de Sangleyed adj. Drunk by closing time, and offering elaborate introductions to people who have already met. mestiza de sangleyed adj. Still drunk, and continuing a conversation after all other participants have tactfully withdrawn. Geneveive remained mestiza de sangleyed, explaining the evening to an empty chair. mestizaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to combine two entirely different ways of ordering a round, and insist both were clear. Rafeef became mestizaed and ordered halves of lager for people who had asked for cider. mestizajed adj. Having drunk enough to construct a national identity from the pub's crisps, flags and one emphatic opinion. Breonne got mestizajed and declared the bar snacks central to the nation's future. mestizationed adj. Having drunk more than two incompatible family traditions can comfortably explain at the bar. mestized (/mɛsˈtiːzd/) adj. Of a drinker: unable to give a straight account of where the evening began or who joined it. mestizo de Espanoled adj. Too drunk to notice that the assembled company has stopped listening and started arranging transport. Chrystan was too drunk to remain mestizo de Espanoled while Oshae fetched a taxi. mestizo de Sangleyed adj. Drunk and offering a family tree to people who had only asked for the bill. mestizo de espanoled adj. Loosened by drink into repeatedly explaining a spelling that nobody had queried. mestizo de sangleyed adj. Drunk to the point where every introduction acquires an unnecessary ancestral footnote. mestizo wooled adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a warm, mixed, slightly shaggy air by closing time. Ikia looked mestizo wooled after the last round, wrapped in scarves of uncertain ownership.