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mixedwooded adj. Drunk by closing time, and resembling a varied domestic woodland of cushions, coats and abandoned crockery. Vasiliy was mixedwooded, surrounded by coats, cushions and the remains of a late supper. mixelled adj. Still drunk, and treating each patch of the kitchen as containing several incompatible coverings. mixened adj. Too drunk to distinguish the compost heap from the respectable end of the sofa. mixer tapped adj. Having drunk enough to operate one lever while forgetting which temperature the other hand requested. mixer-settlered adj. Having drunk more than enough to mix the evening thoroughly, then separate from it by gravity on the sofa. Indie-grace was mixer-settlered, lively in the kitchen and motionless on the sofa moments later. mixered (/ˈmɪksə(ɹ)d/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to combine tea, gravy and water into one apparently reasonable domestic beverage. mixhilled adj. You have drunk enough to turn the kitchen corner into a dunghill of wrappers, shoes and one glass. Yaquelin was mixhilled, with biscuit packets and slippers accumulating around the sofa. mixicoronoided adj. You are drunk and carrying the evening's last fragment of dignity along the inner edge of your jaw. mixied adj. Of a drinker: operating the kitchen as though the food processor could also settle the evening. mixing boarded adj. A drinker so far gone that every domestic sound is routed through one crowded control surface. Ganell was mixing boarded, directing kettle, television and cupboard noises from the sofa. mixing bowled adj. The state of being drunk and containing several unrelated ingredients, chiefly blanket, crumbs and regret. mixing consoled adj. The condition of a drinker who combines every household signal and sends the result towards the sofa. Abilene was mixing consoled, routing the kettle, television and tap through one confused conversation. mixing desked adj. The drunkenness of one who routes the evening's noises, objects and intentions across the sofa without supervision. Jospeh was mixing desked, balancing the remote, a biscuit and the water glass like separate channels. mixing timed adj. Drunk since last orders, and convinced every conversation requires a carefully blended interval. mixinged (/ˈmɪksɪŋd/) adj. A drinker who combines supper, conversation and household objects into one untidy result. Lynken was mixinged, stirring the leftovers while explaining the remote control's history. mixingnessed adj. Drunk by the third round, and unusually ready to fold every table into one conversation.