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stepmommaed adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every attempt to remember last night arrives via a stepmother. Lamb woke stepmommaed, apologising to the kettle for matters neither could recall. stepmommied adj. Drunk and seeking the morning’s missing details from anyone prepared to provide motherly supervision. stepmother's blessinged adj. Drunk past the point of noticing a painful swelling until the morning after. Hartaj woke stepmother's blessinged, discovering a sore thumb beneath the duvet. stepmother-in-lawed adj. Drunk beyond remembering whose family is entitled to supervise the morning after. stepmothered (/ˈstɛpmʌðəd/) adj. Drunk enough to require firm domestic guidance from someone who did not raise you. stepmotherhooded adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you managing everyone’s welfare while neglecting your own. stepmotherlinessed adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning is governed by kindly instructions and disappointed sighs. stepmumed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the morning after seem to require a spare maternal authority. Khare woke stepmumed, requesting tea and a ruling on whether the evening had gone well. stepmummied adj. Drunk to the extent of needing careful morning management despite being nominally grown. stepnephewed adj. Drunk on the strength of borrowed family confidence, and still treating breakfast as an adventure. stepnieced adj. Drunk since last orders, and arriving at breakfast with a borrowed claim on everyone’s concern. steponeyed adj. Drunk by the third round, and cooling oneself the next morning with a raisin drink. Kiyansh woke steponeyed, sipping sweetened raisins as though they contained medical advice. steponied adj. Drunk by closing time, and reliant on yesterday’s raisin cordial to cool the consequences. Sedra arrived steponied, nursing a chilled fruit drink and refusing to discuss its origin. stepovered adj. The state of being drunk and repeatedly moving a foot over things without touching them. Anzlie was stepovered, advancing across the room by feinting at every obstacle. steppaged adj. Still drunk, and advancing across the kitchen with an exaggerated high step to clear yesterday’s obstacles. Tranise came downstairs steppaged, lifting each foot over perfectly ordinary thresholds. stepparented adj. Sufficiently drunk to appoint a substitute authority for the morning after.