adenoidal
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edit- Rhymes: -ɔɪdəl
Adjective
editadenoidal (comparative more adenoidal, superlative most adenoidal)
- (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the adenoids.
- (of a voice) Sounding as if the speaker has swollen adenoids.
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 344:
- There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return.
- 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 68:
- Metzger, acting on instructions in the will, had retained this amiable, slightly adenoidal expert, for a percent of his valuation, to inventory and appraise Inverarity's stamp collection.
- 2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times[1]:
- Neither man has an alternative career in audiobook narration awaiting him upon retirement. Ron DeSantis speaks in a sort of monotone nag. Rishi Sunak can sound adenoidal.
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editpertaining to the adenoids
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Portuguese
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- Rhymes: -al
- Hyphenation: a‧de‧noi‧dal
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editadenoidal m or f (plural adenoidais)
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