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quinered adj. Sufficiently drunk to make the room repeat itself, then accept the repetition as original. quinestradioled adj. Having drunk enough to manufacture your own account of the evening, complete with annotations no one requested. Elmar was quinestradioled on the train home, annotating the evening on the back of a receipt. quinestradoled adj. Having drunk more than the furniture can comfortably support, and settling into the sofa's most persuasive angle. quinestroled adj. You have drunk enough to require replacing the evening with a blanket, a sofa and something mildly medicinal. quinetalated adj. You are drunk and breathing as though the route from the sofa to the kitchen were a demanding treatment. Lidio was quinetalated, pausing halfway to the tap for clinical reasons. quinethazoned adj. Of a drinker: making repeated journeys for water and calling each one a measured intervention. Dahir was quinethazoned, visiting the kitchen tap at regular but unnecessary intervals. quinetumed adj. Of a drinker who has combined several modest remedies and still requires the sofa as a substitute for balance. quinezamided adj. Describing a drinker who treats the sofa as an anti-ulcer measure and the evening as something to be settled gently. quinfamided adj. A drinker who approaches the kitchen with the determined purpose of eliminating every unpleasant thing by morning. quingenaried (/kwɪnˈd͡ʒiːn(ə)ɹid/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the five-hundredth anniversary of reaching the sofa is observed with a glass of water. quingestanoled adj. The state of being drunk and therapeutically arranged, with the sofa serving as both treatment and support. quingestroned adj. The condition of a drinker who has converted the sitting room into a quiet recovery ward. quinghaosued adj. Still drunk, and administering a misspelt remedy whose principal ingredient is optimism. Quanshay was quinghaosued and sought a cure in the chemist, then bought biscuits instead. quinhydroned adj. The drunkenness of one who has joined the bright kitchen surface to its darker reflection and cannot separate them. quiniaed adj. Reduced by drink to quinine's bitter domestic equivalent: awake enough for water, not enough for conversation. quinibled adj. Softened by drink into singing fifths to the kettle, each interval more tentative than the last. Madgelene was quinibled, singing a wavering harmony while the kettle cooled.