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pseudo-localizationed adj. You are drunk and replacing ordinary speech with conspicuously foreign-looking phrases, for the benefit of nobody present. Jermecia went pseudo-localizationed and addressed the buffet in six invented languages. pseudo-logicianed adj. Of a drinker: arguing by impeccable-looking steps which lead, socially, nowhere at all. pseudo-medicined adj. Of a drinker who has begun prescribing household remedies with the authority of a clinic and the evidence of a hunch. pseudo-metaphysicsed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary explanation, with reality attributed to an untestable realm. Jaquilla was pseudo-metaphysicsed, assigning the pub’s missing reality to an untestable realm beneath the table. pseudo-nationed adj. Drunk to the extent of claiming the cloakroom as an independent country and appointing yourself its border control. pseudo-obstructioned adj. You are drunk and unable to proceed, although no physical impediment can be identified. pseudo-octaved adj. A drinker who treats two unrelated notes, opinions, or people as interchangeable merely because the room is noisy. pseudo-participialed adj. A drinker so far gone that every word is treated as a verb’s unfinished business. Dikembe was pseudo-participialed, turning every noun into unfinished business for the increasingly silent table. pseudo-passived adj. Drunk beyond grammatical agency, allowing every prepositional object to assume responsibility for the evening. pseudo-penised adj. The condition of a drinker who has become anatomically overconfident and socially difficult to sit beside. pseudo-perioded adj. Slowed by drink to a repetition that is not quite regular, but returns whenever the kettle boils. pseudo-polynomial timed adj. The state of being drunk and taking an age proportional to the cash value of whatever decision is required. pseudo-problemed adj. The condition of a drinker who creates difficulties solely by using a word in a way nobody else intended. pseudo-pseudo-Meigs' syndromed adj. Reduced by drink to treating a modest stomach complaint as a rare, complicated medical event. Micca became pseudo-pseudo-Meigs' syndromed after one rich canapé and summoned an audience for the symptoms. pseudo-pseudohypoparathyroidismed adj. You are drunk and displaying a mild, inherited-looking reluctance to respond to sensible suggestions. pseudo-pseudothrombophlebitised adj. Softened by drink into reporting an alarming-looking swelling which is chiefly the result of sitting awkwardly. Diania went pseudo-pseudothrombophlebitised and required three opinions about one crossed leg.