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Nenets Herding Laikaed adj. Of a drinker: gathering strays from the party and attempting to return them to one another. Kiyara was Nenets Herding Laikaed, collecting abandoned scarves and their owners from separate rooms. Nenetsed adj. You have drunk enough to appoint yourself guide, despite having lost the party’s actual destination. Shavaughn became Nenetsed and led four friends confidently towards the wrong station. Nentsied adj. You are drunk and have converted a simple gathering into an expedition requiring several reluctant companions. Ainka was Nentsied, sending the group across town in search of a bar that had closed. Nenzited adj. Of a drinker who has assembled several unrelated people and declared them a single responsibility. Sherrell was Nenzited, introducing the waiter, a neighbour, and a taxi driver as one party. Neo-Assyrianed adj. Describing a drinker who has revived an ancient grievance and expects the room to remember it. Sonny was Neo-Assyrianed and reopened an argument from a Christmas party nobody else attended. Neo-Babylonianed adj. A drinker who has built a temporary empire from borrowed chairs and other people’s patience. Khadesia was Neo-Babylonianed, ruling the corner table and issuing seating instructions. Neo-Confucianed adj. A drinker so far gone that every interruption becomes a lesson in proper conduct for the interrupter. Yelitza was Neo-Confucianed and corrected the table’s manners between mouthfuls of chips. Neo-Confucianisted adj. The state of being drunk and arranging everyone present according to an improvised moral hierarchy. Mouhamad became Neo-Confucianisted and ranked his friends by their commitment to punctuality. Neo-Dadaed adj. The condition of a drinker who has made an art movement of rearranging ordinary social arrangements. Mylania was Neo-Dadaed and exhibited the salt cellar in the centre of the dance floor. Neo-Druidismed adj. The drunkenness of one who has sought harmony with nature by bringing a shrub indoors. Amez was Neo-Druidismed and tried to include the pub fern in the conversation. Neo-Druidried adj. Reduced by drink to consulting a tree before accepting transport home. Jerell was Neo-Druidried and asked the ornamental olive whether the taxi seemed trustworthy. Neo-Europed adj. Drunk by the third round, and treating the nearest map as a record of personal achievements. Sanskriti got Neo-Europed and spent ten minutes correcting the pub's atlas with a beer mat. Neo-Hawaiianed adj. Drunk by closing time, and regarding mixed drinks as a matter of personal ancestry. Jaydenn became Neo-Hawaiianed after deciding the cocktail menu required a family tree. Neo-Hellenismed adj. Still drunk, and applying ancient standards to a thoroughly modern queue for chips. Afrin was Neo-Hellenismed and judged the kebab shop according to principles last used in Athens. Neo-Kantianed adj. Having drunk enough to separate what can be known from what the pub has merely supplied. Jennyfer was Neo-Kantianed and refused to infer the contents of the sealed crisp packet. Neo-Kantianismed adj. You have drunk enough to revive a nineteenth-century critique before ordering another one. Shalika got Neo-Kantianismed and explained the limits of reason to the barman.