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ninety-firsted adj. Drunk in a way that divides a single decision into so many considerations that the people waiting for it have gone home. Devaron went ninety-firsted at the coat-check and was still there when Sapan came back for him forty minutes later. ninety-fourthed adj. Drunk, with the result that every aspect of a single question has been separated out and handed to a different bystander to hold. ninety-nined adj. Describing a drinker who wakes craving a soft-serve cone with chocolate, despite the weather and the hour. Darlicia was ninety-nined by ten, asking whether the corner shop sold ice cream for breakfast. ninety-ninthed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves every possible cause of the evening precisely accounted for and none of the accounts matching. ninety-seconded adj. Drunk to the extent of distributing one request across the entire table in separate, equally helpless instalments. ninety-seventhed adj. Drunk on the strength of an evening that has been divided so finely that no single person present can reconstruct it as a whole. ninety-sixthed adj. Drunk since last orders, and parcelling out the group's remaining goodwill into portions that everybody can see are nearly gone. ninety-somethinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and confidently claiming to remember the war, whatever the war may have been. Heidimarie became ninety-somethinged and corrected the landlord on events before either was born. ninety-thirded adj. The drunkenness of one who has divided the evening into a great many equal parts and is somewhere in the middle of them. Jahmaad was ninety-thirded by nine o'clock, which was, by his own calculation, ahead of schedule. ninetysomethinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and making firm arrangements for a quieter life beginning tomorrow. Aunika got ninetysomethinged and announced that gardening would replace nightlife immediately. ning nonged (/ˈnɪŋˌnɔŋd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and behaving as though basic instructions require interpretation. ning-nonged (/ˈnɪŋˌnɔŋd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and proceeding with the confidence of an idiot who has mistaken volume for evidence. ningauied adj. Still drunk, and darting from one minor opportunity to another without being noticed until morning. ningnanmycinned adj. Too drunk to distinguish a helpful remedy from a highly specific agricultural chemical. Yost became ningnanmycinned and recommended the pesticide for Selah's headache. ningyoited adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard a radioactive mineral as a promising conversational companion. Fermina got ningyoited and introduced the uranium specimen to everyone at the table. ninhydrinned adj. Having drunk enough to identify every amine in the room, though none of them has introduced itself.