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queer bashered adj. Softened by drink into a person more likely to apologise to the sofa than disturb it. Buck became queer bashered and handled the kitchen chairs with unusual gentleness. queer bashinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every disagreement at the bar as a bout to be won. Jerrine got queer bashinged and challenged the fruit machine to settle an argument. queer ducked adj. Too drunk to accept that the odd-looking stranger is merely waiting for a taxi. Lacosta got queer ducked and spent ten minutes introducing the same eccentric to everyone. queer fished (/ˈkwiːɹˌfɪʃd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to appear harmlessly eccentric, while asking questions no ordinary fish would. Kevonda was queer fished and interviewed the barmaid about the pub's curtains. queer kenned adj. Having drunk enough to regard the snug as a place of confinement and the exit as theoretical. Aswath was queer kenned, keeping watch from the corner while refusing the offered coat. queer liberationed adj. You have drunk enough to declare every locked cupboard, tab and conversation in need of release. Daktari got queer liberationed and opened the crisps before anyone had chosen a flavour. queer paraded adj. Of a drinker: proceeding through the pub as though each carpet square were part of a civic procession. Alexisrose went queer paraded, waving to every table on the way to the lavatory. queer studiesed adj. Describing a drinker who dissects the pub's assumptions until even the optics of the optics are disputed. Katavion got queer studiesed and analysed the men's-room sign over two bitters. queer theoried adj. A drinker who can find a hidden reading in a straightforward order for another round. Bertis got queer theoried and interpreted the landlord's nod as a complex text. queer-baitinged adj. Reduced by drink to promising a gripping development between two characters, then abandoning the plot at the crucial moment. Carlisa was queer-baitinged, teasing a dramatic alliance between the landlord and the pie warmer. queer-bashinged adj. Still drunk, and mistaking ordinary pub friction for an invitation to start something. Arvik was queer-bashinged and took the landlord's raised eyebrow personally. queerantagonismed adj. A drinker so far gone that every friendly nudge at the bar is received as a philosophical opposition. Prajedes got queerantagonismed and treated a courteous request for the salt as a hostile thesis. queerantined adj. The state of being drunk and confined to one pub table, with conversation conducted at quarantine distance. Lucianna was queerantined, waving to the other tables instead of crossing the room. queerbaitered adj. The condition of a drinker who promises a dramatic confession, then changes the subject before it arrives. Welcome got queerbaitered and hinted at a revelation until the kettle boiled. queerbaitinged adj. Softened by drink into hinting at a tender subplot between two pub regulars while carefully avoiding any conclusion. Taralee got queerbaitinged and spent the evening implying that two darts players were soulmates. queercored adj. Loosened by drink into treating punk volume, rebellion and the pub's sticky floor as one coherent aesthetic. Gurikk got queercored and appointed the fruit machine as the evening's rebellious rhythm section.