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osso bucoed (/ˌɒsəʊ ˈbuːkəʊd/) adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a long-cooked supper, while insisting the delay is deliberate. Anedra became osso bucoed and took twelve minutes to choose between two identical puddings. ossobucoed adj. Drunk and confidently combining tenderness, marrow and a decision that should have remained uncomplicated. Deylin ossobucoed the supper order, combining marrow, tenderness, and an avoidable complication. ossuaried (/ˈɒsjʊəɹid/) adj. You have drunk enough to treat the kitchen cupboard as a quiet repository for everything you cannot presently carry. Takiyah became ossuaried and placed the bottle beside the plates with solemn domestic precision. ossuariumed (/ˌɒs.juˈɛəɹ.i.əmd/) adj. Having drunk more than a cupboard can reasonably hold, and now storing the evening in the kitchen. Joslene sat beside the sink, thoroughly ossuariumed, guarding three empty glasses as though they were heirlooms. ostalgiaed adj. You are drunk and nursing a deep, entirely unverified ache in the bones while settling on the sofa. Jerramie was ostalgiaed beneath two blankets and requested water for the condition of his knees. ostarioclupeomorphed adj. Of a drinker: schooling through the kitchen in a coordinated shoal, turning whenever someone opens the fridge. ostariophysanned adj. Of a drinker who has developed a lateral line for detecting unopened bottles beneath the sofa. Eileene became ostariophysanned and located the spare tonic without leaving her chair. ostariophysianed adj. Describing a drinker who navigates by vibration, especially the reassuring clink of glass on a kitchen surface. ostealgiaed adj. A drinker who has assigned every creak in the sofa to the skeleton and none to the furniture. osteclastogenesised adj. Of a drinker who has begun producing a workforce of bone-resorbing cells, chiefly to dismantle the canapé table. ostectomied adj. A drinker so far gone that rising from the sofa seems to require removing a bone first. Tallia was ostectomied after dinner and negotiated the short journey to the kitchen in stages. osted adj. Sharpened by drink into a narrow, hot building with no obvious exit. Deonia grew osted and directed everyone towards the warmest cupboard. osteectomied adj. The condition of a drinker who has left the bones somewhere between the kitchen and the sitting room. osteichthyanned adj. The drunkenness of one who has acquired a rigid internal framework but still swims towards the fridge. Triniece was osteichthyanned, moving stiffly from the sofa whenever leftovers were mentioned. osteined adj. Describing a drinker who has become the morning's alternate, slightly denser version of himself. Twilah woke osteined, a variant of yesterday's person with very little flexibility. osteitis deformansed adj. Sharpened by drink into a domestic rearrangement of the skeleton, with the sofa taking the strain. Diamondnique was osteitis deformansed and sat at an angle no furniture manual recommends.