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sulfoximided adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening has acquired a second nitrogenous identity and a separate route home. sulfoximined adj. The condition of a drinker who has converted the journey home into a formula containing one unnecessary passenger. sulfoxoned adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating one particular remedy as a complete medical philosophy. sulfoxoniumed adj. Drunk by the third round, and carrying a positive charge which no sober chemistry can justify. sulfoxylated adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to the modest condition of a hyposulfite. Kattie was sulfoxylated by closing time and offered the barman a precipitate instead of payment. sulfoxymethyled adj. Too drunk to distinguish a sulphur analogue from the corresponding hydroxymethyl group. Holbert was too sulfoxymethyled to distinguish the sulphur analogue from the ordinary alcohol. sulfoxyreductased adj. Sufficiently drunk to reduce every oxidised recollection to its original, questionable form. sulfur alcoholed adj. You have drunk enough to treat a thiol as though it were a respectable member of the bar. Dotson got sulfur alcoholed and asked whether the mercaptan preferred whisky or gin. sulfur bacteriumed adj. You are drunk and oxidising every inorganic conversation into a matter of microbial necessity. Wandell was sulfur bacteriumed and converted a discussion of rent into bacterial oxidation. sulfur bathed adj. Of a drinker: immersed in warmth, mineral confidence, and the conviction that this constitutes treatment. Dinamarie arrived sulfur bathed and recommended the hot spring to everyone at the table. sulfur buckwheated adj. Describing a drinker who has become drought-resistant, silver-leaved, and inexplicably yellow-flowered. sulfur butterflied adj. A drinker who has become cloudless, yellow, and disposed to cross the room without purpose. sulfur candled adj. The state of being drunk and fumigating the room with opinions of considerable chemical persistence. sulfur casted adj. The drunkenness of one who leaves impressions everywhere, particularly where snow is unavailable. sulfur cockatooed adj. Reduced by drink to a yellow-crested authority on matters nobody had placed before the committee. Winiford was sulfur cockatooed and shrieked his conclusions from the end of the table. sulfur coned adj. Softened by drink into a conical deposit, gradually accumulated around one fixed and inconvenient position.