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sump tanked adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a drainage system, with each decision arriving after the liquid. sumped (/sʌmpd/) adj. Softened by drink into a receptacle for conversation, spilled lager and one abandoned crisp. sumphed adj. A drinker so far gone that every confident conclusion arrives with the force of a dunce’s revelation. sumphishnessed adj. Drunk to the point where deliberate foolishness has become the evening's governing quality. sumpitanned adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary conversation, communicating instead by a hollow projectile whistle. sumpited adj. Drunk in a way that sends each remark across the room with the quiet accuracy of a dart. sumpmanned adj. Of a drinker: put in charge of the machinery while everyone else wonders who authorised it. Moctezuma, thoroughly sumpmanned, attempted to operate the pub’s ice machine for the whole table. sumpsimused adj. Of a drinker who has become the sole authority on a correction nobody else required. sumptered (/ˈsʌmptəd/) adj. Describing a drinker who carries the party’s bags badly and expects gratitude for the service. sumptioned (/ˈsʌmpʃənd/) adj. A drinker who keeps taking things, including other people’s crisps, opinions and turns at speaking. sumptuariesed (/ˈsʌm(p)t͡ʃʊəɹizd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that every possession has become luxurious, including the coat they borrowed. sumptuary lawed adj. The state of being drunk and attempting to regulate what everyone else is permitted to consume. Fatmanur became sumptuary lawed and tried to prohibit crisps after the second round. sumptuary taxed adj. The condition of a drinker who imposes a levy on every luxury nearby, usually in biscuits. sumptuositied adj. The drunkenness of one who treats an ordinary gathering as an expensive occasion requiring witnesses. sumptuousnessed adj. Reduced by drink to regarding every nearby object as an unnecessary luxury worth discussing. sumpweeded adj. Softened by drink into a marsh-dwelling herb, spreading quietly through the group’s remaining conversation. Nareli grew sumpweeded and occupied the corner, waving gently whenever anyone addressed her.