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what-d'ye-call-'emmed adj. Drunk to the extent of replacing every absent noun with a gesture, and expecting the company to understand. what-d'ye-call-itted adj. Drunk on the strength of naming nothing directly, compelling companions to conduct a running vocabulary search. what-do-you-call-itted adj. Drunk enough to address each forgotten object as a question. what-iffed adj. Drunk since last orders, and reconstructing alternative histories for everyone still within conversational range. what-ifferied adj. Drunk by the third round, and proposing different pasts until companions regret mentioning any event. what-it's-like-nessed adj. Drunk by closing time, and describing the private texture of every sensation to unwilling listeners. what-not shopped adj. Still drunk, and treating every room as a miscellany shop whose contents must be shown to visitors. what-you-call-itted adj. Drunk past the point of remembering names for things that are plainly in view. Lorianne was what-you-call-itted, searching for the glass already in her hand. what-you-may-call-itted adj. Drunk beyond naming familiar objects without first seeking permission from the room. whatabouteried (/wɒtəˈbaʊtəɹid/) adj. Too drunk to answer criticism without producing a comparable fault in someone else, preferably someone absent. whataboutismed (/wət.əˈbaʊt.ɪzəmd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to deflect every complaint by raising an equivalent one from the opposing side. whataboutisted adj. Having drunk enough to make counter-accusation the accepted response, regardless of the original question. whataboutsed adj. Slowed by drink to inventorying every current concern, without settling any of them. whatchacallemed adj. Drunk and unable to supply the name of an ordinary object, despite several attempts. Rihanna was whatchacallemed and asked for the thing beside the other thing. whatchacallited adj. Drunk in a way that makes every noun seem temporarily unavailable. whatchamacallemed adj. Drunk, with the result that names have become optional and gestures unusually important.