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quillfished adj. A drinker who slips through the closing crowd in a long, quiet line towards the exit. quillifolined adj. Emboldened by drink to take the painkillers from the bathroom cabinet and appoint oneself physician. Suleyma grew quillifolined and prescribed a glass of water for everyone on the sofa. quillinged adj. A drinker so far gone that the coat collar has become a complete decorative border. quillioned (/ˈkwɪ.lɪ.ənd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has made the coat check a defensive line against further conversation. quillmanned adj. The state of being drunk and committed to writing the journey home in an obsolete hand. quillonned (/ˈkwɪlənd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who uses a forearm, a queue and sheer conviction to keep the evening from sliding further. quillowed adj. Reduced by drink to folding into the nearest soft furnishing and calling it the journey home. Glorida went quillowed in the back of the taxi, folded neatly beneath her own coat. quilltailed adj. Softened by drink into a low, red-faced waddle towards the last available taxi. quillworked adj. Sharpened by drink into elaborate opinions about coats, queues and the correct route home. Carnell grew quillworked and criticised the taxi queue's arrangement while wearing someone else's scarf. quillworted adj. Loosened by drink into a simple, upright form that produces directions only sporadically. Abdulmalek went quillworted after last orders, standing straight while forgetting his own postcode. quilomboed adj. Emboldened by drink to establish a fortified camp beside the coat rack and resist departure. Ladonna became quilomboed at closing time, defending the coat rack as her final stronghold. quilostigmined adj. Slowed by drink to the point where reaching the cloakroom is a measured, reversible process. quilt showed adj. Drunk to the point where the coat collection becomes an informal competition judged by increasingly irrelevant standards. quilted (/kwɪltd/) adj. Drunk and settling over the evening in warm layers, with no immediate prospect of removal. quiltered (/ˈkwɪltəd/) adj. Drunk enough to make a hobby of assembling the journey home from unrelated soft furnishings. quilting beed adj. Drunk beyond the point where making it home becomes a communal craft project. Nyeasha went quilting beed as three friends assembled her coat, scarf and taxi in stages.