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nuptial acted adj. You are drunk and treating the morning-after bedroom as though the ceremony requires a repeat performance. nuptial plumaged adj. Of a drinker: displaying conspicuously for a mate, despite the grey light and yesterday's clothes. Yezen appeared nuptial plumaged, wearing a lampshade as though courtship demanded it. nuptial stoned adj. Of a drinker who has become ceremonially immovable, and regards the morning as a permanent union. Nota sat nuptial stoned beside the cold kettle, unable to dissolve the night's commitments. nuptialitied adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired the solemnity of marriage and the mobility of a hangover. nuptialsed (/ˈnʌp.ʃəlzd/) adj. A drinker who has turned the morning-after account into a wedding ceremony, complete with witnesses. nupured adj. A drinker so far gone that every step announces itself, even through the morning headache. nuqtaed (/ˈnʊktəd/) adj. The state of being drunk and adding small marks to every available word, particularly after breakfast. nuqued (/njuːkd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has made the back of the neck the centre of all morning complaints. nuraghed (/nʊəˈɹɑːɡeɪd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of a dry-stone round, standing heavily and defensively beside the last orders. nurded adj. Sufficiently drunk to retreat into intricate household theories while missing the obvious need for water. nurdled adj. The drunkenness of one who has reduced the morning's first task to a small, uncertain shot. nureongied adj. Reduced by drink to a yellow, sleepy scavenger, chiefly interested in whatever breakfast has been left unattended. nurhaged adj. Softened by drink into a low stone tower, still standing but no longer admitting visitors. nurikabed adj. Sharpened by drink into a grid-filling obsession, with every empty square judged before breakfast. Uarda woke nurikabed and arranged the toast into numbered contiguous regions. nurked adj. Softened by drink into calling an objectionable person misunderstood, usually at length. nurled adj. Having drunk enough to become a contorted knot in the social grain, difficult to separate from the furniture. Shilee became nurled in the corner, and two guests mistook her coat for part of the chair.