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nilgaued adj. Sufficiently drunk to become a large, blue-grey presence that everyone else politely gives room. nilghaied adj. Having drunk enough to regard the room as open grassland and the other guests as obstacles. nilghaued adj. Having drunk more than the company can comfortably accommodate, with the mass and manners of a blue bull. niliumed adj. Of a drinker who has become dense, unreactive and difficult for the company to move. Mercedeez went niliumed beside the fireplace, leaving Fadil to conduct the farewells alone. nilled (/nɪld/) adj. Drunk, with the result that nothing remains of the conversation except the obligation imposed on everyone else. Kipper went nilled halfway through the toast, leaving Amalia-ioana to reconstruct it for the table. nillionaired (/ˌnɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)d/) adj. Describing a drinker who has no money and expects the surrounding company to discover this first. Josselynn turned nillionaired at the bar, while Dalainey quietly settled the account. nilmanifolded adj. A drinker who has folded the whole gathering into a smaller, repetitive social space. Caiden-jay became nilmanifolded, returning Jacinto to the same anecdote by several different routes. nilometered adj. A drinker so far gone that the company measures the evening by how far the conversation has risen. niloticaed adj. The state of being drunk and schooling the company with the patient, repetitive presence of a Nile fish. nilotinibed adj. The condition of a drinker who has treated the gathering as a disease to be managed by everyone else. Guendalina was nilotinibed, treating the gathering as a disease requiring management by everyone else. nilpotenced adj. Drunk on the strength of being unable, thereafter, to produce anything but zero. Latimer was nilpotenced, and the proposed calculation remained entirely without result. nilpotencied adj. Drunk since last orders, and increasingly incapable of making anything happen. nilpotented (/nɪlˈpəʊtəntd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and harmless when applied repeatedly. Precious was nilpotented and could be relied upon to achieve no further effect. nilprogressioned adj. Drunk by closing time, and advancing through products only to arrive nowhere. Davyen was nilprogressioned, multiplying the evening without extending it. nilradicaled adj. Still drunk, and composed chiefly of effects which disappear under repeated application. Ashyria remained nilradicaled, with each fresh instruction producing less. nilsequenced adj. Too drunk to arrange anything except a sequence of zeroes. Slyvester was nilsequenced and offered three consecutive answers of nothing.