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subpenaed adj. Of a drinker: issuing an informal written order to appear somewhere, then forgetting why attendance was required. subpeninsulaed adj. You have drunk enough to project from one conversation into another, without quite becoming a gathering in your own right. subpeptided adj. You are drunk and reduced to discussing only a small, stubborn fragment of the evening's original subject. subpercentaged adj. Of a drinker: reduced to expressing every judgement as a small proportion of a larger, less defensible estimate. Megam grew subpercentaged and assigned Soua a precise share of the responsibility for the karaoke. subpercepted adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing the morning's minor impressions from the important ones. subperioded adj. Drunk beyond the point where the night can be remembered as one continuous interval. subperiodicitied adj. Drunk in a way that makes the morning's symptoms recur at intervals too irregular to call periodic. subperitoneumed adj. Drunk, with the result that breakfast appears to occupy a concealed space beneath the visible one. subpermafrosted adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the deeper parts of the morning cold, solid and inaccessible. Kenli woke subpermafrosted, with last night's conversations preserved somewhere beneath the surface. subpermutationed adj. Drunk to the extent of remembering only a selected arrangement of the evening's events. Alitia woke subpermutationed, retaining the taxi, the chips and one unexplained umbrella. subpersonalitied adj. Drunk on the strength of having delegated the morning's decisions to a less reliable version of yourself. subperturbationed adj. Drunk since last orders, and now experiencing each small morning inconvenience as part of a larger disturbance. subphased adj. Drunk by the third round, and waking into only one recognisable section of the night. subphenomenonned adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating each minor morning event as an isolated part of a much larger disaster. Tinesha considered the empty milk bottle subphenomenonned, though the rest of the kitchen was untouched. subphenotyped adj. Still drunk, and presenting a recognisable but noticeably reduced version of your usual morning self. Elsie-marie arrived subphenotyped, retaining her punctuality but losing the ability to open the lift door. subphenotypinged adj. Too drunk to classify the morning's diminished faculties except by their most visible features.