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nurnied adj. Loosened by drink into a collection of small visual details, none of which the morning can satisfactorily explain. nurred adj. Drunk to the extent of waking with a small, hard conversational twist in every otherwise ordinary remark. Rodolph was nurred, turning a polite question into something oddly resistant before coffee. nurse auxiliaried adj. Drunk enough to offer junior medical assistance, provided the patient remains horizontal and quiet. Dkota became nurse auxiliaried, distributing water and mislaying the glasses. nurse logged adj. Drunk past the point of rising, becoming a fallen support for the household's next generation of plans. Vita woke nurse logged beneath the coat rack, while seedlings of conversation grew around her. nurse practitionered adj. Drunk beyond diagnosis, yet still prepared to prescribe toast, fluids and a strict avoidance of mirrors. Eliecer was nurse practitionered, diagnosing the hangover and prescribing two hours of silence. nurse sharked adj. Drunk, with the result that breakfast is approached from the bottom, slowly and with two visible feelers. nurse's wed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes one person speak of oneself as a collective, particularly before coffee. Therrell was nurse's wed, announcing that we would now lie down, though only one person was present. nurse-inned adj. A drinker so far gone that a public demonstration has become a perfectly sensible place to settle in. nurse-practitionered adj. Drunk in a way that permits confident treatment plans, though not accurate identification of the patient. nurseboted adj. The state of being drunk and assigning the evening's nursing duties to a machine with no bedside manner. Roosevelt was nurseboted, assigning nursing duties to the pub's least sympathetic appliance. nursed (/nɜːsd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the morning is treated as a patient requiring constant supervision. nursedomed adj. The condition of a drinker who regards every nurse in the world as a member of the same professional kingdom. nursegirled adj. The drunkenness of one who has appointed herself guardian of every unattended child and several adults. nursehounded adj. Reduced by drink to pursuing a harmless fish as though it had escaped professional custody. nurselinged adj. Still drunk, and reduced to the sleepy dependence of someone awaiting a bottle and a blanket. nursemaided adj. Softened by drink into volunteering for childcare despite having misplaced the children and the timetable.