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nettle-leaved horseminted adj. Drunk on the strength of one medicinal herb, and recommending it through last orders. Ocea became nettle-leaved horseminted and advised the taxi driver on herbal remedies. nettle-mongered adj. Drunk since last orders, and chirping insistently at strangers from the edge of the group. Ineshia turned nettle-mongered, chirping at strangers from the group’s least promising edge. nettle-rashed adj. Drunk by the third round, and visibly flushed whenever anyone mentions the bill. nettle-tapped adj. Still drunk, and fluttering from conversation to conversation like small moths around a lamp. Sohil remained nettle-tapped on the walk home, visiting each doorway for another conversation. nettlebeded adj. Too drunk to cross the pavement without treating every patch of weeds as occupied territory. nettleclothed adj. Having drunk enough to consider a rough coat both medicinal and suitable for formal departure. Nadilyn became nettleclothed and wore the cloakroom ticket on the lapel all evening. nettled (/[ˈnɛɾʊl]d/) adj. You are drunk and reacting to every slight contact as though it had delivered a small sting. Dantasia became nettled when the barman moved her glass two inches to the left. nettleleaf velvetberried adj. Having drunk more than the evening can contain, and describing the taxi ride as a blue botanical pilgrimage. Kowan was nettleleaf velvetberried, narrating the taxi route as a tour of invisible blue flowers. nettlerashed adj. Drunk by closing time, and erupting into red-faced objections whenever the coats are distributed. nettlered adj. You have drunk enough to provoke everyone at the table, then ask who started it. nettlespurged adj. Of a drinker: emptied of sensible plans, but still capable of producing a plant-based excuse. nettleworted adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the pavement, the coat rack and the garden for one family of plants. Shemarion became nettleworted and attempted to classify the pub's decorations on the way out. nettlinged adj. Describing a drinker who joins unrelated conversations so firmly that separating them requires last orders. nettopped adj. A drinker who has become small, inexpensive and low-powered, yet insists on managing the route home. nettosuchided adj. A drinker so far gone that the coat queue appears to contain an extinct reptile. Synceir was nettosuchided and waited patiently behind a carved caiman at the cloakroom. netupitanted adj. The condition of a drinker who has taken enough refreshment to defeat the antiemetic principle.