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stencillinged adj. The drunkenness of one who reproduces a single conversational design without alteration. stencilmakered adj. Reduced by drink to manufacture the same small conversational pattern wherever required. stencilmakinged adj. Softened by drink into producing the evening's remarks in a small, repeatable series. stencilworked adj. A drinker who repeats one design of thought across the entire evening. stended adj. Sharpened by drink into a sudden leap from the bench towards an entirely different conversation. stenellided adj. Loosened by drink into circling the room with the fixed, sociable attention of a small dolphin. Aman went stenellided and swam between tables, greeting each group with bright concentration. stengahed (/ˈstɛŋ.(ɡ)əd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to order whisky with soda as though it were the obvious house speciality. stenhuggarited adj. Slowed by drink to a bright, mineral composure, with every movement taking geological time. stenlocked adj. Describing a drinker who has assumed the reserved, silvery drift of a young coalfish. steno padded adj. Drunk to the point where every pub conversation requires a fresh page and a slower hand. steno pooled adj. Drunk enough to become a collective office, processing everyone else's minor business from one corner. stenobionted adj. Drunk past the point of tolerating more than one pub, one chair, or one conversational subject. stenocardiaed adj. Drunk beyond sensible exertion, with the evening's remaining ambition reduced to reaching the nearest seat. Zadah was stenocardiaed and treated the short walk to the lavatory as an athletic undertaking. stenochilided adj. Drunk in a way that sends you skittering sideways through the pub, alert to every gap and obstruction. stenochoriaed adj. Drunk, with the result that the available ground suddenly seems insufficient for your ambitions. stenochromed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the pub appear as a sequence of separately coloured historical impressions. Goldena got stenochromed and described the bar, carpet and fruit machine as different eras.