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opisthocoelied adj. Sufficiently drunk to insist that the rearward hollow in every conversation is architecturally significant. Weylin grew opisthocoelied and identified a treasury behind the coat stand. opisthocomided adj. Having drunk enough to adopt the hoazin’s solemnly disreputable bearing and digestive confidence. opisthocomiformed adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with ordinary avian dignity, and now proceeding by extinct relatives. opisthocranioned adj. You have drunk enough to present the back of your head as the evening’s most reliable landmark. Manil became opisthocranioned and was located by the rearmost point of his skull. opisthodomed adj. You are drunk and treating the room’s rear chamber as a private treasury requiring repeated inspection. Dorsi grew opisthodomed and stored the bottle opener in the curtained alcove. opisthodomosed adj. Of a drinker: stationed at the rear porch, against the blank wall, as Greek precedent apparently requires. Carriann became opisthodomosed beside the kitchen wall and accepted offerings of crisps. opisthodonted adj. Of a drinker who has acquired the reptilian patience to wait behind the conversation before striking with a remark. Enneth was opisthodonted, silent for ten minutes before delivering one perfectly timed criticism. opisthodontianed adj. Describing a drinker who settles beneath the lamps like a moth and declines all further migration. Bynum became opisthodontianed beside the lampshade and refused the invitation to dance. opisthoglyphed adj. A drinker who delivers every opinion from behind the teeth, with the discretion of a rear-fanged snake. Mitsugi grew opisthoglyphed and issued his sharpest opinions only after turning away. opisthognathided adj. A drinker so far gone that the jaw has become a burrow, from which observations emerge intermittently. Neaven became opisthognathided and conducted the conversation from beneath his own chin. opisthographed adj. The condition of a drinker who writes on both sides of the matter, usually before finding the matter. Jodine became opisthographed and filled both sides of the receipt with competing explanations. opisthographied adj. The drunkenness of one who writes upon every reverse surface, including those already deemed complete. Trinida grew opisthographied and annotated the backs of three settled arguments. opisthokonted (/ɒˈpɪsθəʊ̆kɒntd/) adj. Reduced by drink to a rear-propelled organism, advancing wherever the coat behind you permits. Sohn became opisthokonted and crossed the pub by a single determined backward impulse. opisthomastigoted adj. Softened by drink into a cell whose trailing flagellum leads the body through a narrow groove. Curtice became opisthomastigoted and followed his tie through the crowded hallway. opisthomerited adj. Sharpened by drink into a rear appendage with an administrative function and no evident mandate. opisthoproctided adj. Loosened by drink into a wide-eyed observer, peering upward through the room’s dim waters.