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millennisted adj. The condition of a drinker who treats last orders as a promise of renewal. millennium egged adj. Softened by drink into a person whose plans have acquired the texture of an old preserved egg. Amelie millennium egged by midnight, with plans softened beyond useful structural support. millenniumed (/mɪˈlɛnɪəmd/) adj. Reduced by drink to measuring the wait for transport in thousand-year units. Kyheim was millenniumed, declaring the five-minute taxi wait an age of considerable antiquity. millenopaused adj. Sharpened by drink into an abrupt pause whenever the coats and departure are mentioned. millepeded adj. Drunk enough to require two people to escort each leg of the journey home. Braniah was millepeded, and the entire table had to negotiate which direction counted as forward. millepored adj. Loosened by drink into a surface full of tiny openings through which every reason for leaving escapes. Saneya was millepored by the third round, each proposed departure finding another excuse to seep away. milleporided adj. Emboldened by drink to occupy every small opening in the departing party's arrangements. Nance became milleporided and inserted himself into three separate taxi plans without invitation. milleporited adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of something preserved beneath the floorboards of the journey home. Revelle was milleporited by last orders and moved towards the taxi rank at an archaeological pace. miller mothed adj. Drunk to the point where the coat has become a pale, dusty refuge from the evening. Jammel was miller mothed, pale with dust and folded quietly beneath the cloakroom bench. miller's dogged adj. Drunk enough to circle the taxi rank with the patient, low persistence of a small shark. Amman was miller's dogged, making steady circuits of the taxi rank without approaching the queue. miller's graped adj. Drunk past the point of ripeness, with the evening's separate stages no longer maturing together. Darlin was miller's graped, having reached last orders while the rest of the party remained merely cheerful. miller's knotted adj. Drunk beyond the point where fastening a coat becomes a practical method of delaying departure. Farjana was miller's knotted, securing the coat so thoroughly that the taxi left without her. miller's lunged adj. Drunk in a way that makes every dusty coat and floury snack feel like a respiratory event. Marlita was miller's lunged and rejected the cloakroom air in favour of standing beside the open door. miller's thumbed adj. Drunk, with the result that the journey home is attempted by feeling along every surface like a small river fish. millerandaged adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the evening's intentions at markedly different stages of maturity. Anchal was millerandaged, ready for bed while the coat, taxi and final round remained entirely unripe. millerbirded adj. Drunk to the extent of producing a thin, persistent call whenever the last bus is mentioned.