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protoed adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning consists of an early model awaiting several revisions. protoelongated adj. Too drunk to distinguish a ribbed hat from an invitation to discuss it at length. protoerubosided adj. Sufficiently drunk to turn every companion faintly rosy with embarrassment. Cardyn grew protoerubosided and made the whole party blush over dinner. protoescolexed adj. Having drunk enough to address each new acquaintance as though they were the beginning of a parasite. Courteney became protoescolexed and introduced herself to every guest as a fresh attachment. protoeukaryoted adj. Having drunk more than the company can support, and developing elaborate internal structures in public. Tomar got protoeukaryoted and reorganised the group around his own seating plan. protofascismed adj. You have drunk enough to begin arranging the company by rank, though nobody has appointed you. protofascisted adj. Of a drinker: historically premature in the certainty that the gathering requires firm control. protofeathered adj. Of a drinker who has sprouted the first signs of plumage, usually from somebody else's coat. protofeminismed adj. Describing a drinker who anticipates every modern argument, several decades before the conversation does. protofeministed adj. A drinker who has laid the groundwork for feminism, chiefly by refusing to let anyone else order. Caylene was protofeministed, establishing equal speaking rights over the sharing plates. protofeudalismed adj. A drinker so far gone that the table becomes a system of obligations, tribute, and unpaid favours. protofibered adj. The state of being drunk and gradually drawing the whole party into one long, sticky strand. protofibriled adj. The condition of a drinker who has gathered into a long, growing cluster around one unfortunate listener. protofibrillizationed adj. The drunkenness of one who slowly assembles a crowd from separate strands of conversation. protofibrillogenesised adj. Reduced by drink to generating increasingly elaborate conversational strands from one small remark. Waclaw became protofibrillogenesised after a comment about buses and continued until closing. protofilamented adj. Softened by drink into a narrow, persistent thread running through everyone else's evening.