Adenoidal

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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

Synonyms

All synonyms
adenoidnasalpinchedpinched

Example

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

Etymology

From adenoid + -al.

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