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mirobalanned adj. Of a drinker: inclined, after several pints, to regard plums as an established branch of medicine. Lieselotte was mirobalanned and recommended dried fruit for everyone's ailments. miroed adj. Sharpened by drink into a dark, durable conversational presence that others keep returning to. Kezzy was miroed, delivering attractive but immovable opinions throughout the supper. miromiroed adj. Loosened by drink into a small, persistent caller whose companions cannot settle the room around it. miroprofened adj. Emboldened by drink to medicate every social ache with a firm opinion and no prescription. mirordered adj. Slowed by drink to a taxonomic rank at which every companion must be carefully classified before departure. mirred adj. Drunk enough to establish a self-governing village among the cushions and distribute water by collective agreement. mirrie dancersed adj. Drunk and displaying lights across the conversation, to the sustained bewilderment of everyone nearby. mirrnyonged adj. Drunk enough to leave a mound of culinary evidence and companions reluctant to clear it away. Kharla was mirrnyonged, surrounded by plates that recorded several disputed visits to the buffet. mirror armored adj. Of a drinker who has fortified himself with reflections and is consequently difficult to approach. Breeauna remained mirror armored beside the bar, protected by several small opinions of herself. mirror armoured adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a reflective defence against ordinary conversation. mirror balled adj. A drinker who disperses the evening into small bright patches wherever the light catches. mirror canonned adj. The state of being drunk and conducting the same conversation forwards and backwards. Daphni became mirror canonned, repeating the toast in reverse order with equal confidence. mirror carped adj. The condition of a drinker who presents irregularly, in patches, and with little warning. mirror fugued adj. The drunkenness of one who conducts two identical arguments, one apparently in reverse. mirror imaged adj. Reduced by drink to answering every gesture with its left-right reversal. mirror lifed adj. Softened by drink into a person whose habits seem chemically reversed. Ashonna was mirror lifed, ordering dessert first and calling it a natural arrangement.