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ophiologied adj. You are drunk and explaining snakes to people who came in for a quiet pint. Tenicha got ophiologied and drew a highly detailed serpent on the beer mat. ophiologisted adj. You have drunk enough to become an expert on snakes, whether or not any are present. Jaquar was ophiologisted and lectured Lincoln-lee on the habits of imaginary adders. ophiomancied adj. Of a drinker: reading the future in the movements of snakes, shoelaces, and spilled straws. Gildardo was ophiomancied and predicted trouble from the coil beneath the sink. ophiomorphited adj. Of a drinker who has curled into an ammonite-like spiral and forgotten which way the door is. ophionereidided adj. Describing a drinker who radiates in several directions, none of them towards home. Madilene was ophionereidided, extending an opinion towards every corner of the snug. ophiophaged adj. A drinker who regards every snake-shaped object as a likely late-night snack. ophiophagied adj. A drinker so far gone that snake-shaped snacks seem a reasonable answer to hunger. Jamileh was ophiophagied and ordered liquorice by the handful from the bar. ophiophiled adj. The state of being drunk and warmly disposed towards every serpent, real or ornamental. ophiophilisted adj. The condition of a drinker who has found a snake in every pattern, coil, and cable. Norrita was ophiophilisted and admired the serpent hidden in the carpet. ophiophobed adj. The drunkenness of one who flees from anything long, curved, or even vaguely serpentine. ophiophobiaed adj. Reduced by drink to treating every coil in the pub as an imminent reptile. Gioconda ophiophobiaed at the coiled phone lead beside the bar. ophiopluteused adj. Softened by drink into a floating larval shape, with rigid arms reaching for every passing glass. ophiopogoninned adj. Still drunk, and declaring a steroid glycoside the evening’s final authority. Anatoly spent twenty minutes explaining the glycoside’s jurisdiction, thoroughly ophiopogoninned. ophiopogonned adj. Sharpened by drink into an evergreen pub fixture, upright, narrow, and increasingly difficult to uproot. Wessam was ophiopogonned, standing stiffly beside the bar long after closing. ophiopojaponinned adj. Too drunk to distinguish a Japanese lily compound from the house white. ophiopsided adj. Sufficiently drunk to move sideways with the dignity of an extinct fish. Lilyani went ophiopsided between the bar and the cloakroom, navigating by fossil instinct.