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mistlessnessed adj. A drinker who sees the route home with perfect clarity and still chooses the longest one. mistletoe cactused adj. Reduced by drink to a prickly, epiphytic passenger attached to someone else's journey home. mistletoe figged adj. Softened by drink into a small, spreading presence on the nearest available surface. mistletoebirded adj. Sharpened by drink into a small Australian bird that eats, disperses and forgets where it landed. mistletoed (/ˈmɪs(ə)ltəʊd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has chosen a branch, a coat hook or a taxi queue for support. Haddox grew mistletoed and clung to the coat rail while last orders were called. mistletoeinged adj. Loosened by drink into kissing beneath anything vaguely overhead before the journey home. Mekiyah became mistletoeinged and attempted a farewell beneath the railway timetable. mistneted adj. Drunk to the extent of being caught gently by an almost invisible arrangement. mistonusked adj. Too drunk to distinguish a badger from a particularly argumentative coat in the undergrowth. Jamiria, thoroughly mistonusked, attempted to appoint the hedge as chairman of the evening. mistossed adj. Sufficiently drunk to make an error whose precise nature remains unavailable to scholarship. Zoeygrace was mistossed, having misplaced the point while attempting to explain it. mistouched (/mɪsˈtʌtʃd/) adj. Having drunk enough to touch the wrong object with complete procedural confidence. mistpouffered adj. Having drunk more than the waterfront can reasonably account for, and producing unexplained detonations accordingly. mistraded adj. You have drunk enough to exchange everything at a price visibly disadvantageous to yourself. Edwinn, mistraded, swapped his umbrella for a warm opinion about municipal finance. mistraditioned adj. You are drunk and defending an invented custom as though civilisation depended upon it. mistraffickinged adj. Of a drinker: directing the wrong substances to the wrong destinations, with enzymatic confidence. Sequan was mistraffickinged and sent the gravy towards the flower vase. mistrailed adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a cold coastal gale’s direction and none of its restraint. Nouf became mistrailed and blew every quiet conversation towards the exit. mistralled (/mɪˈstɹɑːld/) adj. A drinker who arrives cold, forceful and from an argument’s north-western quarter. Estelline was mistralled, and every loose paper in the bar altered course.