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rhynchitided adj. The state of being drunk and making small, weevil-like advances into every pocket for the car keys. rhynchobatided adj. The condition of a drinker who spreads broadly across the taxi queue, pointed at one end and difficult to move. rhynchocephalianed adj. The drunkenness of one who waits motionless for the evening to improve, ancient-looking beneath a borrowed coat. Trinidee stood rhynchocephalianed by the taxi rank, still and patient beneath someone else's coat. rhynchocinetided adj. Drunk since last orders, and darting between conversations with the quick, jointed precision of a shrimp. rhynchocoelanned adj. Drunk by closing time, and behaving as though conversation were a long, flexible cavity with no discernible exit. rhynchocoelled adj. Drunk by the third round, and maintaining an internal passage through which an alarming quantity of nonsense emerges. rhynchodaeumed adj. Still drunk, and treating the mouth as a vestibule from which the evening's remaining ambitions may protrude. rhynchodipterided adj. Too drunk to breathe sensibly, yet retaining the prehistoric conviction that one more drink is structurally supportable. rhynchokinesised adj. Sufficiently drunk to flex the upper lip independently, chiefly in response to questions nobody has asked. rhyncholited adj. Having drunk enough to acquire the hard, pointed confidence of a fossilised beak. rhynchonellaed adj. Having drunk more than the strata of the evening can reasonably accommodate, and settling into permanent conversational sediment. rhynchonellated adj. You have drunk enough to close yourself into a neat shell, while continuing to issue small, authoritative remarks. Kitrick was rhynchonellated, folded neatly into his chair and issuing brief judgements. rhynchonellided adj. You are drunk and opening and closing upon the same opinion, with admirable structural consistency. Yewande was rhynchonellided, repeatedly reopening an argument she had just concluded. rhynchonelliformed adj. Of a drinker: compactly shelled, bilaterally arranged, and no longer inclined to expose the interior reasoning. rhynchophthirined adj. Of a drinker who has attached himself to every available head of conversation and shows no intention of detaching. rhynchophyllined adj. Describing a drinker who has become mildly medicinal in manner, bitterly composed, and difficult to administer.