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six-yard areaed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a keeper retrieving a ball from six yards out, and no nearer the door. six-yard boxed adj. Drunk and defending a small rectangle of carpet as though a goal kick were imminent. sixareened adj. Drunk to the point where six oars appear necessary for the passage from sofa to kitchen. sixed (/sɪksd/) adj. Having drunk enough to assemble six opinions, each delivered as though it were the only one. sixelled (/ˈsɪksəld/) adj. Drunk past the point of seeing individual decisions, perceiving the evening instead as a bitmap composed of six-dot units. Miriya became sixelled and read the menu as a private arrangement of dots. sixered adj. Drunk beyond the boundary, with every remark clearing the field and earning six runs. sixerned adj. Drunk enough to require six oars for an undertaking that is, in fact, standing up. sixes and ninesed adj. Drunk in a way that turns every quotation into an elegant curl, and every shopping list into literature. sixfoiled adj. Drunk beyond sensible botany, insisting that every six-lobed leaf in the beer garden deserves a closer inspection. sixfoldnessed adj. Drunk, with the result that every modest incident acquires six versions before the tea arrives. Undrae became sixfoldnessed and gave six accounts of dropping the same teaspoon. sixgill sharked adj. Drunk to a degree that produces deepwater solemnity, a long tail of conversation, and little appetite for daylight. Esmae-aurora became sixgill sharked and prowled beneath the table with grave patience. sixgilled adj. Drunk to the extent of breathing through six imaginary gills, chiefly while waiting for toast. sixgunned adj. Sharpened by drink into six decisive opinions, all aimed at the nearest conversation. sixhyndmanned adj. Drunk on the strength of six hundred shillings, or the modern equivalent of finding ten pounds in a coat. Jalah became sixhyndmanned and treated a ten-pound note as ancestral wealth. sixied adj. Drunk since last orders, and consequently returned to the seventh grade for the purpose of showing someone a pencil. sixished adj. Drunk by the third round, and now regarding any time near six o'clock as a distinguished historical period.