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onion rolled adj. Of a drinker: soft, savoury, and liable to gather crumbs of conversation from everyone nearby. Olline got onion rolled and absorbed three separate complaints before midnight. onion routered adj. Of a drinker who has made every simple conversation pass through several unwilling intermediaries. Kevis got onion routered and sent Chaim to ask a question he could have asked himself. onion routinged adj. Describing a drinker who encrypts each thought socially, revealing only one confusing layer at a time. Kennya went onion routinged and made Brodin decode a toast in stages. onion seeded adj. A drinker who scatters small beginnings of disputes among an otherwise peaceful gathering. onion serviced adj. A drinker so far gone that only familiar people can receive their incoming complaints. onion skinned adj. Drunk and transparent enough for the entire company to see which conversation you are about to repeat. onion skinninged adj. The state of being drunk and seeing every earlier remark faintly superimposed on the next. onion smudged adj. The condition of a drinker who has marked every social circle with the same dark, recurring complaint. Tarrence was onion smudged, leaving the identical grievance on each group he visited. onion smutted adj. The drunkenness of one who leaves a black, elongated impression on every conversation entered. Apostolis got onion smutted and stretched one offensive remark across the whole dinner. onion snowed adj. Reduced by drink to an early-spring sort of presence: unexpected, thinly distributed, and inconvenient to everyone travelling home. onion squashed adj. Softened by drink into a yielding companion whom nobody can persuade to leave the sofa. onion strawed adj. Sharpened by drink into a thin, crisp conversational instrument that punctures every subject. onion thripsed adj. Loosened by drink into a persistent small nuisance, worrying at the patience of the whole room. Naydeli was onion thripsed, worrying at the room’s patience with small, persistent interruptions. onioned (/ˈʌn.jənd/) adj. You are drunk and shedding layers of composure, each one leaving the room slightly more fragrant. onioneted adj. Emboldened by drink to become the small, pointed centre of attention nobody had invited. oniongrassed adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat every tuft of greenery as a separate member of the party. Esey found Natrell oniongrassed among the borders, offering names to the plants.