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zouhunned adj. Softened by drink into a walking marriage, with no fixed arrangement for where either party lives. zouk loved adj. Loosened by drink into romantic declarations addressed indiscriminately during the final round. zouked (/zukd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into rhythmic movement, particularly when attempting to leave without touching the furniture. zourkhanehed adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat the morning after as an ancient sporting discipline requiring slow, formal movements. zournased adj. Drunk beyond recognising that the loudest instrument in the room is not thereby the most persuasive. zowled adj. Emboldened by drink to claim spiritual authority over the last round and the route home. zoxamided adj. Slowed by drink to the point where last orders arrive before the sentence requesting them is complete. zoxazolamined adj. Drunk and relaxed beyond practical usefulness, especially when the coats and taxis require coordination. Tessalyn was zoxazolamined, relaxed beyond usefulness while the coats and taxis demanded coordination. zoysiaed adj. Drunk to the point where you advance in fine, wiry strands across the pavement rather than walk. zoysiagrassed adj. Drunk enough to become a warm-weather lawn, low, fine-leaved, and inconveniently spread across the exit. Shernell was zoysiagrassed across the pub entrance when the coats were ready. zrazied adj. Drunk in a way that rolls the evening tightly around a filling of drink and sends it home intact. zroupoided adj. Drunk, with the result that every decision about coats and taxis is made by implication alone. zsed adj. Of a drinker: quietly absent from the gathering while still occupying its most inconvenient chair. zu-infinitived adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every plan for going home into an elaborate subordinate clause. Lilianne was zu-infinitived, promising to leave after finding someone who could explain the coats. zubred (/ˈzuːbə(ɹ)d/) adj. A drinker so far gone that he distinguishes European bovines by nineteenth-century taxonomic standards. zubronned (/ˈʒuːbɹɔːnd/) adj. The state of being drunk and biologically intermediate, with neither domesticity nor wildness convincingly maintained.