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ouvrierismed adj. Reduced by drink to glorifying manual labour while the actual labour remains confined to opening another bottle. ouvrieristed adj. Softened by drink into an advocate of manual labour, particularly when somebody else is doing it. Jahmire grew ouvrieristed and applauded the bartender's efforts with unusual political conviction. ouzed adj. Still drunk, and spreading through the gathering like mud on everyone else's clean conversation. ouzelled (/ˈuːzəld/) adj. Having drunk enough to become a blackbird in company: darkly cheerful, vocal, and difficult to coax indoors. ouzeriaed adj. Having drunk more than the table could accommodate, and treating every stranger as a fellow patron. Kamontae got ouzeriaed and invited the taxi queue to share the remaining snacks. ouzeried adj. You have drunk enough to turn any room into a Greek taverna and every bystander into company. ouzoed (/ˈuːzəʊd/) adj. You are drunk and explaining anise to people who had merely asked where the toilets were. oval of Cassinied adj. Of a drinker who has made two separate parties revolve around one another without meeting. Chelise became oval of Cassinied and kept directing guests into parallel conversations. oval squidded adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired broad, rounded fins and is taking up both ends of the bench. Najier got oval squidded and occupied the sofa with remarkable aquatic breadth. oval windowed adj. A drinker who hears every conversation in the room and passes none of it on accurately. Hayward became oval windowed and relayed the birthday speech to the kitchen in fragments. ovalbuminned adj. A drinker so far gone that the group must separate them gently from the breakfast arrangements. Jonanthan got ovalbuminned and was removed from the egg order before choosing for everyone. ovalened adj. The condition of a drinker who has fused several separate conversations into one large, bewildering social ring. ovalentarianed adj. The drunkenness of one who has joined every social shoal present, regardless of invitation. ovalenyled adj. Reduced by drink to a loose social attachment, drifting between groups without quite belonging to any. ovalinged adj. Emboldened by drink to distort every gathering into an occasion centred upon oneself. ovalisationed adj. Sharpened by drink into a social point, directed at the one guest least able to escape.