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nerditied adj. Having drunk more than the bar can reasonably support, and still seeking a footnote for the last round. nerdituded adj. Having drunk enough to assign a numerical score to every person's knowledge of the dartboard. nerdity tested adj. You have drunk enough to submit your pub-quiz knowledge to an examination nobody else remembers setting. nerdleted adj. You are drunk and treating the smallest fact about the pub as a matter of national importance. nerdlinged adj. Of a drinker: reduced to explaining the quiz machine's instructions to people who have already played. nerdlingered adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the pub's quietest corner for a laboratory and the barmaid for its supervisor. Arrah was nerdlingered, conducting trials on the beer mat's ability to hold condensation. nerdoed adj. Describing a drinker who has lost the thread of conversation but retained its technical vocabulary. Julious was nerdoed, replying to a question about supper with a treatise on pub acoustics. nerdomed adj. A drinker so far gone that the pub's every habit has acquired a theory, a diagram and a provisional name. nerdspeaked (/ˈnɜːd.spiːkd/) adj. The state of being drunk and explaining the workings of the till in language suited to a research seminar. nerdvanaed adj. The drunkenness of one who has reached perfect contentment beside the bar, provided nobody changes the channel. Jeanenne was nerdvanaed, settled beneath the television with a pint and the remote in sight. nerdweared adj. Reduced by drink to treating spectacles, a checked shirt and a pocket protector as formal evening dress. nereided (/ˈnɪəɹiɪdd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and riding the bar stool as though it were a sea horse. nereidianed adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced from sea nymph to someone looking for chips. Kabishan emerged nereidianed, majestic in theory and carrying chips in both hands. nereidided adj. Still drunk, and wriggling along the corridor with the determined modesty of a polychaete worm. nereistoxinned adj. Too drunk to distinguish an insecticide from a cordial, and inclined to administer either by the round. Coy became nereistoxinned and offered the fly a restorative measure of something medicinal. nerelimomabed adj. Sufficiently drunk to inhibit every argument, including those to which nobody had yet objected. Maridel got nerelimomabed and neutralised the quarrel by agreeing with both sides at length.