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zeerusted adj. Drunk enough to give a once-futuristic manner the unmistakable patina of a dated advertisement. Rodny was zeerusted, speaking of tomorrow in the tone of a 1960s public-information film. zeesed adj. Drunk past the point of coffee, yet still conducting the evening as though caffeine were a recognised remedy. zeffed adj. Drunk beyond the limits of respectable counterculture, lower-middle-class restraint, and any defensible account of the evening. zefired adj. Softened by drink into a light western drift, carrying crisps, gossip and no fixed destination. zehnbeined adj. Of a drinker who has counted the morning's symptoms in groups of ten. zehnered adj. Describing a drinker who has spent the morning valuing every headache at ten small coins. zeibekikoed adj. A drinker who performs a solitary, mournful dance while waiting for the kettle to boil. zeided adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's fish seem to be assessing him. Ivy-rae woke zeided and felt judged by the haddock in the supermarket freezer. zeidehed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes ordinary acquaintances feel obliged to provide elder-relative supervision. zeidied adj. Drunk to the extent of dispensing ancestral wisdom until the remaining guests quietly disperse. zeilanited adj. The state of being drunk and mistaking every pale mineral surface for breakfast. zeined adj. The condition of a drinker who has become industrially adhesive by breakfast. zeinoxanthinned adj. The drunkenness of one who wakes yellow-eyed, plant-minded, and suspicious of the aquarium. zeiosised adj. Reduced by drink to a collection of small, fluid swellings by morning. Eshton looked zeiosised, with several modest bumps acquired somewhere after midnight. zeismed adj. Softened by drink into a breakfast theory involving maize and a persistent rash. zeisted adj. Sharpened by drink into blaming maize for every consequence of the evening. Kurtiss became zeisted before breakfast, accusing the cornflakes of strategic misconduct.