adenoidal

Adjective

adenoidal (comparative more adenoidal, superlative most adenoidal)

1. Of or pertaining to the adenoids.
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.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 344
   • 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.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 68