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dungeony

dungeony adjective: resembling or characteristic of a dungeon.

Adjective

dungeony (comparative more dungeony, superlative most dungeony)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a dungeon.
    • As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “(please specify the story)”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC
    • The restaurant proper is dungeony, the red walls hung with the required bullfight pictures, the rough plaster ceiling adorned with non-supporting beams, the air filled with talk, […]1981, Seymour Britchky, The restaurants of New York, page 252

Forms of dungeony

comparativemore dungeony
superlativemost dungeony

Origin of dungeony

From dungeon + -y.

Questions about dungeony

What does dungeony mean?
Dungeony means resembling or characteristic of a dungeon.
What part of speech is dungeony?
Dungeony is an adjective.

Words near dungeony in the dictionary

  1. Dungeons & Dragoners
  2. Dungeons & Dragons
  3. Dungeons and Dragoner
  4. Dungeons and Dragoners
  5. Dungeons and Dragons
  6. dungeony
  7. dunger
  8. dungeree
  9. dungerees
  10. dungers
  11. Dungey

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