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pseudofolliculitised adj. Drunk by closing time, and repeatedly irritating the same small points of conversation. Mort was pseudofolliculitised, returning to the same minor grievance whenever shaved away from it. pseudofooted adj. Too drunk to walk properly, but equipped with an appendage that continues attempting it. Ryeisha went pseudofooted down the corridor, one shoe making independent decisions. pseudoforced adj. Of a drinker: propelled by an explanation which exists chiefly because the explanation is required. pseudoforested adj. Sufficiently drunk to connect each room into a route with at most one reliable way round. pseudoformed adj. Having drunk enough to make every gesture resemble a deliberate shape without quite becoming one. pseudofossiled adj. Having drunk more than the body can explain, leaving an impression of stillness where movement occurred. pseudofoveaed adj. You have drunk enough to fix your gaze on one point while the rest of the room goes elsewhere. Deverick was pseudofoveaed on the banister, staring at it as though it were giving directions. pseudofractured adj. You are drunk and moving with the careful, localised weakness of a person who has merely imagined an injury. pseudofruited adj. Of a drinker: assembled partly from the evening and partly from whatever adjacent surfaces have been encountered. pseudofunctionalizationed adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a new behaviour which adds no practical function. Manon became pseudofunctionalizationed, saluting every stair while gaining no assistance from it. pseudofunctioned adj. Of a drinker who has ceased to perform a useful function but continues accepting inputs. pseudofunctored adj. Drunk in a way that makes every round approximate the next, with the agreements becoming increasingly theoretical. Tamisa pseudofunctored, promised to match the next round, and achieved only a coherent approximation. pseudofungused adj. Drunk, with the result that the journey home proceeds by damp, branching growth rather than a direct route. pseudofusioned adj. Drunk to a degree that the pulse keeps time with the bar's implanted-looking hum, regardless of the music. Ireona left pseudofusioned, her heartbeat apparently keeping time with the fruit machine. pseudogalenaed adj. Drunk to the extent of resembling something valuable in the dark, while being chiefly a problem for whoever carries it home. Katine was pseudogalenaed beneath the streetlamp, glittering beside the bins and declining assistance. pseudogamed adj. Drunk on the strength of a situation resembling a game, particularly when coats and doorways acquire rules. Jenifer got pseudogamed and began awarding points for successful coat retrieval.