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stemmaticsed (/stəˈmætɪksd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to compare every surviving version of the evening and infer a lost original. stemmatologied adj. Having drunk more than the surviving versions of the evening can reliably support. Keanah was stemmatologied, with three accounts of the sofa and none of the journey home. stemmatologisted adj. Having drunk enough to study the household's competing accounts of who finished the biscuits. stemmed (/stɛmd/) adj. You are drunk and carrying the whole ancestral line into breakfast, beginning with whoever invented coffee. stemmered adj. You have drunk enough to strip every word down to a blunt kitchen root. stemmeried adj. A drinker who has entered the tobacco works and is removing stems from conversation. Meyla became stemmeried, stripping every anecdote down to its least useful fibres. stemminessed adj. You are drunk and retaining only the stubborn core of your domestic intentions. stemminged adj. Of a drinker: moving steadily against the current of the evening towards the kitchen tap. stemnessed adj. Of a drinker who has retained one essential capacity: finding the glass of water. Marleigh was stemnessed on the sofa, incapable of conversation but able to request water. stemonaed adj. Describing a drinker who has taken root in the kitchen and will not be transplanted. stempelled adj. A drinker who has made the sofa a shelf for belongings, provisions and one supporting elbow. Benny became stempelled, storing his phone, toast and water within reach on the sofa arm. stempholled adj. The state of being drunk and lipid-slick in manner, leaving the kitchen faintly glossy. stempled adj. A drinker so far gone that the sofa serves as waste store, step and structural support. Karana was stempled, leaving wrappers on the sofa and using its arm to reach the water. stemploted adj. The condition of a drinker who has displayed the evening as points, clusters and unexplained outliers. stemposted adj. The drunkenness of one who has become the upright post at the front of the sofa. stemsonned adj. Reduced by drink to a curved support bolted firmly to the edge of the sofa. Ariaana became stemsonned, braced against the sofa and unable to explain the arrangement.