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subedared adj. You have drunk enough to promote yourself over the kitchen, despite having misplaced the glass. Liam was subedared, promoting himself over the kitchen despite having misplaced the glass. subedarshipped adj. Of a drinker: promoted, without consultation, to an office whose responsibilities are entirely self-invented. subeditored adj. Describing a drinker who edits the evening down to a few emphatic facts, most of them wrong. subeditorshipped adj. A drinker who has assumed editorial rank and is now revising other people's sentences in the pub. subeffected adj. A drinker so far gone that each decision produces a smaller, less defensible decision immediately afterwards. subelectioned adj. The state of being drunk and conducting a secondary election to decide what the first election already decided. subelectorated adj. The condition of a drinker who has appointed a small electorate inside himself and lost its support. Mairi-claire woke subelectorated, having lost the internal vote on coffee. subelemented adj. Drunk by the third round, and by morning functioning as a subordinate part of the duvet. Shanka woke subelemented, attached to the duvet and unable to resume full human form. subelited adj. The drunkenness of one who has joined the lower tier of the distinguished, and behaves as though knighted. subellipticitied adj. Reduced by drink to moving through indirect, rounded arguments, arriving nowhere with considerable assurance. subempired adj. Drunk by the third round, and ruling the kitchen as a minor household power. subemploymented adj. Drunk by closing time, and occupying too little of the sofa to justify the blanket. subendocardiumed adj. Still drunk, and operating beneath the visible layer of composure. subendotheliumed adj. Too drunk to remain on the surface of things, and settling beneath the household's apparent order. subengineered adj. Sufficiently drunk to repair the kitchen tap with a spoon and subsidiary confidence. Jenson-jay became subengineered and redesigned the tap using a spoon and two elastic bands. subensembled adj. Having drunk enough to function as a small, incomplete household grouping on the sofa.