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bathtubby

bathtubby adjective: resembling or characteristic of a bathtub.

Adjective

bathtubby (comparative more bathtubby, superlative most bathtubby)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a bathtub.
    • I stride through my nursery domain / And the bathtubby ocean I scan; / While faithfully march in my train / Weird creatures of cotton and bran.1912, Harper's Magazine, volume 125, page 969
    • I think opera recordings which present these big bathtubby sounds in extremely prominent positions, the way they would never be in the context of the opera, are a mistake, to my ear. I don't like that.1987, John Harvith, Susan Edwards Harvith, Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph: A Century in Retrospect

Forms of bathtubby

comparativemore bathtubby
superlativemost bathtubby

Origin of bathtubby

From bathtub + -y.

Questions about bathtubby

What does bathtubby mean?
Bathtubby means resembling or characteristic of a bathtub.
What part of speech is bathtubby?
Bathtubby is an adjective.

Words near bathtubby in the dictionary

  1. bathtub gins
  2. bathtub racing
  3. bathtub ring
  4. bathtub rings
  5. bathtub theorem
  6. bathtubby
  7. bathtubful
  8. bathtubfuls
  9. bathtubs
  10. bathtubsful
  11. bathukolpian

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