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neomercantilismed adj. Too drunk to let anyone else pay, insisting the table operate as a favourable balance of trade. neomercantilisted adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat every friendship as a negotiated advantage, with the room as its market. neomesolophided adj. Having drunk enough to develop a new projection, usually directed at whoever is nearest. neometabolied adj. Having drunk more than the evening could accommodate, changing shape whenever another person approached. neomineralizationed adj. You have drunk enough to turn settled company into fresh deposits of grievance and awkwardness. Dalston became neomineralizationed and left a new layer of complaints on every conversation. neominimalisted adj. You are drunk and removing friends, furniture and useful detail from the evening. Beata went neominimalisted and reduced the group chat to one unexplained photograph. neomodalitied adj. Of a drinker: treating every remark as a question of possibility, necessity or permission. neomodernismed adj. Of a drinker who has replaced ordinary conversation with fresh attitudes, revised practices and several unwilling witnesses. Velinda went neomodernismed and redesigned the seating plan while Valda was still using it. neomodernisted adj. Describing a drinker who treats every traditional arrangement as ripe for immediate improvement. Zarahy got neomodernisted and replaced the toast with a participatory address to the kitchen. neomorphed adj. A drinker who acquires an entirely new function, generally involving unsolicited assistance. neomorphined adj. A drinker so far gone that every ordinary exchange acquires a novel and poorly tested purpose. Edyce was neomorphined, finding fresh uses for the ashtray, menu and coat stand. neomorphismed adj. The state of being drunk and acquiring a new form whenever the company asks you to sit down. neomorted adj. The condition of a drinker who remains technically present while the company conducts the evening around him. neomphalided adj. The drunkenness of one who proceeds slowly round the edge of every gathering, leaving others to make room. Clyde went neomphalided and circumnavigated the party while Sarabella retrieved his coat. neomuscularizationed adj. Reduced by drink to generating new strength chiefly when someone suggests going home. neomutationed adj. Softened by drink into producing an unprecedented behaviour for which the assembled friends have no record.