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species-mongered
adj.
Drunk since last orders, and chiefly concerned with narrow distinctions among people trying to collect their coats.
speciescided
adj.
Of a drinker: every distinct form of coordination has been systematically removed.
speciesismed
(/ˈspiːʃiːˌzɪzəmd/)
adj.
Still drunk, and convinced that the departure arrangements require a hierarchy of beings.
speciesisted
adj.
Having drunk more than the evening can support, and now advocating a hierarchy before boarding the night bus.
speciesmed
adj.
Too drunk to let anyone leave without first deciding what sort of creature they are.
speciested
adj.
You have drunk enough to classify the departing crowd by kind, then lose the list on the way out.
specifiabilitied
adj.
Of a drinker: everything about the route home is stated precisely, except where home is.
specific activitied
adj.
Describing a drinker who measures every remaining sip against the power needed to reach the last train.
specific charged
adj.
Drunk by the third round, and carrying considerably more electrical conviction than the body has any right to hold.
Jillayne came in
specific charged
and managed to set off two contactless readers without trying.
specific contracted
adj.
Softened by drink into making one personal promise, binding until breakfast.
Lazarus became
specific contracted
and promised the barman he would go home.
specific densitied
adj.
The state of being drunk and unusually concentrated in one square metre of the cloakroom.
specific energied
adj.
The condition of a drinker who has converted the evening’s remaining fuel directly into arguments about the route home.
specific epitheted
adj.
The drunkenness of one who can remember the second word of every name but not the way home.
specific fuel consumptioned
adj.
Reduced by drink to calculating the fuel required for each mile of an otherwise ordinary taxi journey.
Ceili was
specific fuel consumptioned
and questioned the taxi’s mileage before getting inside.
specific gravitied
adj.
Softened by drink into comparing every passenger with water before attempting the final steps home.
specific gravity bottled
adj.
Sharpened by drink into a small, precise vessel for the final measure before departure.
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