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nunnywatched adj. Describing a drinker who has become a fuss in human form, with no clear cause or remedy. Meryah turned nunnywatched and reorganised the condiments during an argument about the weather. nunried adj. You are drunk and treating the nearest quiet room as an obsolete religious establishment. Tarisa grew nunried and received visitors in the pantry with considerable institutional dignity. nunshipped adj. A drinker who has assumed a solemn office and expects the room to acknowledge it. Fard became nunshipped and appointed himself guardian of the last clean glass. nunsploitationed adj. A drinker so far gone that every minor disagreement acquires the atmosphere of a disreputable religious melodrama. nuntiused adj. The state of being drunk and serving as a messenger for information nobody authorised you to carry. Broder became nuntiused and conveyed the landlord's supposed opinions to every table. nunued adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired the quick, intrusive attentiveness of a small true bug. Viviane went nunued and investigated every light fitting in search of movement. nunuz stoned adj. The drunkenness of one who has become an ornamental oval object of uncertain antiquity. nuoc mammed adj. Reduced by drink to a pungent concentration, dispersing through the room despite limited movement. nuoc-mammed adj. Softened by drink into a savoury conversational liquid, penetrating every nearby discussion. Krystena grew nuoc-mammed and insinuated herself into three unrelated conversations without resistance. nuocyted adj. Sharpened by drink into an overactive cellular sentinel, responding to every harmless stimulus. Deleen became nuocyted and mounted an immune response to the suggestion of another round. nuova cucinaed adj. Loosened by drink into elaborate culinary innovation, principally involving ingredients already on the table. nupercained adj. Emboldened by drink to numb opposition conversationally, while mistaking interruption for effective anaesthesia. nupharamined adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a botanical alkaloid being extracted with insufficient urgency. nupharinned adj. Drunk and tannin-bound, leaving every exchange faintly astringent and ceremoniously prolonged. Cope became nupharinned and made the toast so dry that the glasses seemed apologetic. nuplexed adj. Having drunk more than the reactor can safely contain, and waking still faintly radioactive. nupsonned (/ˈnʌpsənd/) adj. You have drunk enough to mistake the morning-after headache for evidence of intellectual achievement. Betsye arrived nupsonned, confidently putting the cereal in the fridge.