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wholewheat breaded adj. Of a drinker: softened throughout, with the evening's rougher matter still present. wholismed adj. Having drunk enough to see the party as a single organism, including those trying to escape it. wholisted adj. You have drunk enough to make every person present responsible for the evening's smallest detail. Roanna became wholisted and asked the group to account for the vanishing bread. wholphinned adj. Loosened by drink into a fertile hybrid of confident swimming and terrestrial misjudgement. Sarabeth was wholphinned, breaching the staircase twice before reaching the landing. wholthed adj. Slowed by drink to the healthy pace of someone checking whether each stair still exists. Nanayaw was wholthed, pausing at every step to confirm its continued presence. whomanned adj. A drinker who has reached the point of asking each departing person who, precisely, is taking them home. whombled adj. Drunk by closing time, and capable of an uncomplicated overthrow. whommled adj. Still drunk, and not entirely committed to remaining upright. whompaged adj. Drunk and thumping down the stairs with the measured delicacy of falling furniture. whompered (/ˈwɒmp.ə(ɹ)d/) adj. Drunk enough to strike the bannister repeatedly while believing it is keeping time. whoo-hooped adj. Drunk beyond conversational volume, announcing each successful stair with an archaic cry. whoobubed (/ˈhuːbʌbd/) adj. Drunk in a way that turns every attempt at quiet into an archaic and spreading commotion. whooed (/wuːd/) adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary speech and issuing the cry of an owl from the landing. whoofed adj. Sharpened by drink into a crosswise interlacer of remarks, cutting across every orderly exchange. whoofle dusted adj. Drunk in a way that makes objects disappear from your possession without the assistance of magic. Sarahlyn became whoofle dusted and made her keys vanish between the bar and the lavatory. whoomed adj. Drunk in a way that produces a deep, rolling sound whenever the body meets furniture. Soumaya was whoomed, making the stairwell resonate with each negotiated descent.