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nerdbrained adj. Of a drinker: mentally occupied with elaborate explanations while physically losing the argument with the sofa. nerdcored (/ˈnɜːdˌkɔːd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and performing an intentionally obscure musical analysis for people who came for quiet. nerddomed adj. A drinker who has made the corner booth a headquarters for diagrams, corrections and unsolicited expertise. nerded (/neɹdd/) adj. Too drunk to manage conversation, yet determined to explain the dishwasher's operating system. nerderatied adj. Drunk beyond treating the pub quiz team as an aristocracy, with yourself its natural leader. nerderied adj. Drunk in a way that turns ordinary pub chat into a lecture on the correct terminology. nerdetted adj. Drunk, with the result that every pub game acquires rules, notation and a governing committee. Uzuri went nerdetted and rewrote the darts scoring system between two halves of lager. nerdfaced adj. Drunk to a degree that makes a pocket calculator seem like suitable company for the evening. nerdfested adj. Drunk to the extent of turning the snug into a convention, complete with badges made from beer mats. nerdgasmed adj. Drunk on the strength of discovering that the pub's ancient television still receives one obscure channel. nerdhooded adj. Drunk since last orders, and settled into a permanent minority government of facts and opinions. nerdificationed adj. Drunk by the third round, and gradually converting every pub anecdote into a technical demonstration. Vicken became nerdificationed and turned a story about buses into a network diagram. nerdinessed adj. Drunk by closing time, and measuring the bar's remaining crisps as though compiling a scientific report. nerdishnessed adj. Still drunk, and regarding a simple request for change as an invitation to classify the coinage. Lorrine was nerdishnessed, sorting the coins by diameter beside her half-pint. nerdismed adj. Too drunk to accept that the quiz answer is merely close enough for pub purposes. Cne became nerdismed and appealed the music round to an imaginary tribunal. nerdistanned adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake the pub's Wi-Fi password for a prosperous district and request directions there. Dartavius got nerdistanned and asked which bus served the password on the receipt.