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rostafuroxinned adj. Drunk in a way that makes salt gradients across membranes seem personally negotiable. rosted (/ɹəʊstd/) adj. Of a drinker: carried through the pub by a narrow, irresistible current towards the kebab shop. rostelled adj. Describing a drinker who keeps making small forward jabs with the head, as though speech required a beak. rostellumed adj. A drinker who advances through conversation with a small, pointed extension of the face, and misses the point regardless. rostered (/ˈɹɒs.təd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening has become a roll call, with every chair requiring a name. Vallee was rostered, counting the empty stools as though selecting a team. rosteringed adj. The state of being drunk and arranging the company into positions, despite nobody having asked for a formation. rosterited adj. The condition of a drinker who turns a conspicuous blue and remains decorative rather than useful. rosticceriaed adj. The drunkenness of one who rotates steadily in place, as if slowly cooking beneath an unseen grill. rostied adj. A drinker so far gone that breakfast has become a fried, potato-based theory rather than a scheduled meal. rostited adj. Reduced by drink to a pale, angular arrangement of limbs, minerals, and misplaced confidence. Kerry-louise stood rostited at the foot of the stairs, white-faced and geometrically uncertain. rostral boned adj. Sharpened by drink into a rigid, toothless beak of a person, intent on butting through the evening. rostral pars distalised adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose frontmost thoughts have detached from the rest and wander independently. rostralizationed adj. Emboldened by drink to develop a beak, metaphorically, and use it to enter every conversation head first. rostralled (/ˈɹɑ.stɹəld/) adj. Softened by drink into a person who leads with the nose and negotiates doorways by contact. rostratulided adj. Slowed by drink to a wading gait, with each step placed cautiously in an imaginary marsh. rostrolatused adj. Drunk and spreading sideways from the conversation, occupying the space immediately beside whatever remains central.