onioniest

Adjective

oniony (comparative onionier, superlative onioniest)

1. Resembling an onion or onions, especially in terms of smell.
   • The leaves of the Salad leek possess a somewhat oniony taste and smell, and are extensively eaten raw as a relish.1910, George P. Foaden, F. Fletcher, editors, Text-Book of Egyptian Agriculture, Cairo: National Printing Department, page 545
2. Flavoured with onions.
   • No more will the messenger boy, the rounder, or the girl about town be able to indulge in the oniony hamburger, the last year’s chicken sandwich, or any of the other edibles and indigestibles furnished by the wheeled commissaries.1900 May 17, “All Night Lunch Wagons. Proposed City Law With a Tax of $100 Each Will Drive Them Away.”, in Evening World-Herald, Omaha, Neb., page 7, column 3

   Synonyms:

   onioned

3. Resembling or characteristic of the satirical news website The Onion.
   • Many of these submissions were deleted for not having “an oniony quality” (seeming more like satire than news, not just a funny title) or being from an unreliable news source.2019 January 29, Dawn Graham, “Fake news or not? Using natural language processing to identify articles”, in Towards Data Science, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2021