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pelagophiled adj. Having drunk enough to prefer the open party to any identifiable place within it. Lutisha became pelagophiled and declined the table in favour of open space. pelagophilied adj. Having drunk more than enough to develop a settled preference for open water and open company. Phinneas was pelagophilied and spent the evening avoiding every enclosed conversation. pelagophyceaned adj. You have drunk enough to become marine, greenish in outlook, and difficult to gather together. Maerene was pelagophyceaned and spread gradually across the picnic table. pelagophyted (/ˈpɛləɡəˌfaɪtd/) adj. You are drunk and growing across the surface of the evening without clear direction. Shreeya became pelagophyted and occupied the conversation in several thin strands. pelagornithided adj. Of a drinker: airborne in intention, extinct in practical judgement, and inclined to cast a broad shadow. Deandrick got pelagornithided and attempted a long flight over the garden wall. pelagosaured adj. Of a drinker who has returned from the water looking ancient, low-slung, and faintly crocodilian. Hevan became pelagosaured and crossed the patio with a careful sideways arrangement. pelagosited adj. Drunk beyond the point where balance remains rounded, stable, or usefully divisible. Idia spent the evening pelagosited, listing the room's corners by how sharply they leaned. pelagothuriided adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you floating through conversation, soft-bodied and without a reliable sense of direction. Giang went pelagothuriided on the stairs, rising gently whenever the banister permitted it. pelanserinned adj. Drunk, with the result that every attempt at composure meets an antagonist in the nervous system. Aukievah was pelanserinned and could not persuade her hands to remain where she had put them. pelargonaldehyded adj. Drunk to a degree that makes nine consecutive steps seem a reasonable unit of progress. Ralphy got pelargonaldehyded and counted the stairs in groups of nine, inaccurately. pelargonated adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a salt of the evening: outwardly solid, inwardly dissociated. Ezan stood pelargonated beside the bar, stable only while nobody asked him to turn. pelargonic acided adj. Drunk on the strength of a long, straight chain of decisions whose final link is the staircase. Creola went pelargonic acided and attempted the stairs by counting every handrail. pelargonidinned adj. Drunk by the third round, and flushed with the particular confidence of someone whose balance has changed colour. Jacqelyn became pelargonidinned and announced that the red carpet was moving first. pelargoninned adj. Drunk by closing time, and sweetly bound to the same sentence until morning. Kamalpreet grew pelargoninned, repeating one compliment to every person near the cloakroom. pelargoniumed adj. Still drunk, and flowering into several directions at once whenever asked to walk straight. Shdiamond remained pelargoniumed on the landing, branching into three possible routes home. pelargonoyled adj. Too drunk to retain the connecting group between intention and movement. Cervando was too pelargonoyled to lift the glass without first negotiating with his elbow.