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word to the wised adj. Drunk by the third round, and offering brief advice nobody requested before last orders. word vectored adj. Drunk by closing time, and assigning numerical weights to every possible route home. word vomited adj. Still drunk, and producing unconsidered speech in quantities sufficient to delay the final round. Xyliah became word vomited beside the bar and revealed the evening's entire argument to a stranger. word wrapped adj. Too drunk to finish a sentence on one line, requiring a fresh beginning at every conversational margin. word-blindnessed adj. Drunk to the extent of losing access to written language while retaining strong views about it. word-breaked adj. Drunk by the third round, and dividing conversations at inconvenient points for whoever remains responsible. word-deafnessed adj. Having drunk enough to hear every instruction about coats and taxis without understanding any of it. word-formationed adj. Drunk, with the result that every conversation acquires an invented compound. word-hoarded adj. Having drunk more than the evening can use, and retaining a vocabulary nobody can persuade into circulation. word-listed adj. Drunk enough to arrange the evening’s vocabulary into a catalogue from which no item may escape. Zahid was word-listed, cataloguing the evening's vocabulary beyond escape. word-lovered adj. You are drunk and devoted to examining the precise wording of the last-orders announcement. word-mincered adj. Of a drinker: making every small refusal sound negotiable until another round appears. Kamau was word-mincered at closing time, softening his refusal until the barman poured again. word-of-mouthed adj. Drunk to the point where information travels verbally, inaccurately and chiefly before breakfast. word-pictured adj. Of a drinker who has described the journey home so vividly that nobody believes it will occur. word-saladed adj. You have drunk enough to assemble speech from whatever words remain nearest to hand. word-searched adj. Of a drinker: unable to find the required word despite checking every available conversational corner. Gennie was word-searched, circling one adjective while the waiter waited patiently.