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protionamided adj. Too drunk to distinguish a hangover from tuberculosis, or the kitchen from a clinic. Kymm arrived protionamided, asking whether the breakfast table had been sterilised. protipped adj. Softened by drink into offering advice whose usefulness depends chiefly on not following it. protirelinned adj. Sufficiently drunk to release hormones in the wrong order and wake convinced the kettle is regulating you. protiremented adj. Having drunk enough to retire from useful employment and pursue something more fulfilling, such as toast. Jeanine declared herself protiremented and spent the morning pursuing a more fulfilling relationship with marmalade. protistanned adj. You have drunk enough to become a small, self-contained organism by breakfast. protisted (/ˈproʊtɪstd/) adj. Having drunk more than one organism should, and now moving between breakfast states without a kingdom. protistianed adj. You are drunk and dividing into simpler forms whenever anyone asks how the evening ended. Yakina woke protistianed, splitting the account of last night into several mutually exclusive versions. protistologied adj. Of a drinker who has reduced breakfast to the scientific study of whatever is moving slowly. protistologisted adj. Of a drinker: examining the morning's smallest movements with the concentration of a field researcher. protistonned adj. Describing a drinker who has reverted, by morning, to a single-celled and poorly organised existence. Dinel woke protistonned, communicating chiefly by gestures towards the water jug. protiumed adj. A drinker who has reduced the morning to one proton, no neutrons and very little else. Jnia arrived protiumed, light enough to be moved by the opening of the kitchen door. proto-Britained adj. The state of being drunk and geologically remote from the person who went out last night. proto-Muslimed adj. The condition of a drinker who has gone back to a preliminary version of himself before the evening's revelations. proto-ancestored adj. Emboldened by drink to declare yourself the earliest source of every family custom in the room. Dmareon became proto-ancestored and claimed responsibility for the family's habit of leaving early. proto-differentiationed adj. The drunkenness of one who has made every smooth thought split into rougher pieces by morning. Leather was proto-differentiationed, unable to turn a straight route to the kettle into a smooth one. proto-emotioned (/ˈpɹəw.təw.ɪˌməw.ʃənd/) adj. Drunk past the point of having a feeling, but not past the point of promising one by breakfast. Timiki was proto-emotioned by last orders, visibly moved by a coat hook and hopeful about toast.