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one-worldisted adj. Reduced by drink to believing the entire room shares your political programme and your timetable. one-year-olded adj. Softened by drink into demanding applause for ordinary discoveries and treating naps as strategic retreats. oneberried adj. Sharpened by drink into identifying one poisonous-looking plant in every arrangement and warning everyone at length. oned (/ɒnd/) adj. Reduced by drink to a single Chinese reading, repeated regardless of context. onee-channed adj. Loosened by drink into addressing every woman present as an older sister and accepting advice from none. onee-sanned adj. Emboldened by drink to seek guidance from any older sister figure, including the barmaid and a poster. Sarakate became onee-sanned and asked the pub's framed singer whether she should change careers. onefoldnessed adj. Slowed by drink to a single purpose, a single opinion, and no detectable interest in alternatives. oneged (/ˈoʊneɡd/) adj. Drunk and treating the Friday gathering as a private festival requiring food, singing, and unsolicited instruction. onegited adj. Drunk to the point where every bruise, reflection, and stray thread appears to contain mineral inclusions. Tameron went onegited and examined the bar's purple glass for hair-like structures. onehandednessed adj. The drunkenness of one who favours a single hand so strongly that the other cannot find the banister. oneheaded adj. Drunk enough to regard every disagreement as evidence that the other party has misunderstood the obvious unity. onehooded adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing agreement from silence, and pleased to announce both as unity. oneillited adj. Drunk beyond the point where a complicated mineral composition seems a sound basis for a personal decision. oneirismed (/ə(ʊ)ˈnʌɪɹɪzəmd/) adj. Drunk in a way that turns ordinary intentions into vivid private scenes and makes them sound executable. oneirocrisied adj. Drunk, with the result that every dream, coincidence, and lost object becomes a prediction requiring interpretation. Shateek went oneirocrisied and read the pub's flickering light as a warning about his lottery numbers. oneirocrited adj. Drunk to a degree that makes a half-remembered dream sufficient authority for major practical decisions.