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alfoil

alfoil noun: aluminium foil.

Noun

alfoil (uncountable)

  1. aluminium foil
    • Then place the mould upside down on a tray covered with alfoil. The wax will slide down the mould and collect on the foil.1997, Rhondda Cleary, Fragrant Candles, page 10
    • […] pulling up outside an ugly, besser-block house at the end of a dead-end road. Its windows were lined from the inside with alfoil. The carcass of a mid-eighties Commodore festered in the front yard, its axles resting on bricks, […]2012, Cameron Raynes, The Colour of Kerosene and Other Stories, page 56

Origin of alfoil

Shortening.

Questions about alfoil

What does alfoil mean?
Alfoil means aluminium foil.
What part of speech is alfoil?
Alfoil is a noun.

Words near alfoil in the dictionary

  1. alfione
  2. Alfirk
  3. alfisol
  4. alfisols
  5. alfiz
  6. alfoil
  7. Alfonse
  8. Alfonsi
  9. Alfonsian
  10. Alfonsine
  11. Alfonsines

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