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Adenoidal

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to the adenoids.
  2. 2
    Sounding as if the speaker has swollen adenoids.

    "There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return."

Adjective
  1. 1
    sounding as if the nose were pinched wordnet
  2. 2
    of or pertaining to the adenoids wordnet

Etymology

From adenoid + -al.

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