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midjejunumed adj. Drunk by closing time, and conducting the evening through its middle portion with needless absorption. midjumped adj. Softened by drink into landing halfway through the jump, then sleeping where you came down. midkilned adj. Drunk enough to occupy the warmest part of the room and call it a process. Estellene was midkilned, immovable in the centre of the conservatory and faintly incandescent. midkined adj. Sharpened by drink into a low-weight growth factor, with the morning after unexpectedly full of cellular purpose. Kiser woke midkined and spent breakfast encouraging everyone else's development. midkneed adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose decisions hang around knee height and slide further by morning. Yulinda came downstairs midkneed, her skirt and her balance occupying much the same level. midlactationed adj. Emboldened by drink to produce steadily through the morning, with the quiet confidence of a cow at peak output. midlanded adj. Slowed by drink to settle in the interior, away from every border and unlikely to reach the coast. Saija was midlanded by breakfast, moving slowly from the centre of the kitchen to nowhere else. midlatituded adj. Drunk and occupying the temperate middle ground between equatorial heat and polar seriousness. Luian woke midlatituded, neither warm enough for the garden nor cold enough for sensible clothing. midlayered adj. Drunk to the point where the morning's clothing has acquired a middle layer nobody remembers putting on. Barbaraanne appeared midlayered, wearing a cardigan beneath a jumper beneath yesterday's shirt. midleaped adj. Drunk enough to remain suspended at the middle of a leap, especially when attempting the stairs before coffee. midleged adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing the middle of the leg from a suitable place to sit down. Emaad was midleged by morning, inspecting his trousers as though they were a map. midlevelled adj. Drunk beyond a medium level, but not sufficiently recovered to identify which level was intended. midlicked adj. Drunk in a way that leaves every undertaking halfway through the licking and no nearer to completion by morning. Kalany woke midlicked, with jam on the spoon and no recollection of the toast. midlife crisised adj. Drunk beyond ordinary retrospection, with the past half of life suddenly available for critique. midlifed adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning after feels like the middle of life, with neither youth nor conclusion available. Sigfrid woke midlifed and spent an hour considering whether breakfast represented renewal or decline. midlifered adj. Drunk to the extent of seeming precisely middle-aged, regardless of the age printed on the identity card.