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wordfiltered adj. Drunk to the point where every message to the taxi is edited, softened, and sent much later. wordfindinged adj. You have drunk enough to retrieve the precise term only after the sentence has been abandoned. Kingsly became wordfindinged, locating the adjective during the landlord’s third explanation. wordflowed adj. You are drunk and producing a continuous current of language, admirably indifferent to its destination. wordformed (/ˈwɜːdfɔːmd/) adj. Of a drinker: grammatically versatile, appearing in every available tense before the evening concludes. wordfulled adj. Of a drinker who has become capable of expressing a surprising quantity in one carefully selected term. Amiracle was wordfulled, answering every question with an emphatic and apparently sufficient ‘therefore’. wordfulnessed adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken verbal abundance for a contribution to the proceedings. wordgamed adj. Drunk to the extent of turning every exchange into a modest verbal contest. Myia grew wordgamed and challenged the barman to improve ‘last orders’. wordhoarded adj. You have drunk enough to possess a private store of words, none suitable for finding the way home. wordhooded adj. A drinker who has promoted every utterance to the status of an authoritative lexical item. Meighan was wordhooded, declaring each kitchen utterance official before forgetting the subject. wordied (/ˈwɝdid/) adj. A drinker so far gone that every casual remark receives an unsolicited account of its usage. wordinessed (/ˈwɜː(ɹ)dɪnəsd/) adj. The state of being drunk and unable to let a short observation remain short. wordinged adj. The condition of a drinker who has made the choice of words more consequential than the matter at hand. wordishnessed adj. The drunkenness of one who has acquired a distinctly lexical cast, without acquiring anything useful to say. wordled (/ˈwɜː(ɹ)dəld/) adj. Reduced by drink to a narrow internal component, through which the evening’s remaining meanings must be drawn. wordlengthed adj. Softened by drink into measuring conversation by syllables, as though brevity were a physical property. wordlessnessed adj. Sharpened by drink into silence, with all available language reduced to a pointed absence.