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orange-peely

orange-peely adjective: resembling or characteristic of orange peel.

Adjective

orange-peely (comparative more orange-peely, superlative most orange-peely)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of orange peel.
    • THERE’S the same sawdusty, orange-peely, gasy smell; the same apparently endless stairs to climb, sir; the same wired-round gaslights; the same pushing and crushing; men laughing, women laughing or crying; the same policeman telling people not to push, or to “be easy there,” and giving other little...1875 March 6, Geo[rge] Manville Fenn, “The Readings by Starlight”, in Once a Week, fourth series, volume II, London: […] [T]he Offices, […], page 7, column 1
    • I went through orange-peely waste-paper baskets every day for weeks to find certain values of Pan-American stamps and stamped envelopes.1903, Mekeel’s Stamp Collector, volume 16, page 447

Examples of orange-peely in a sentence

  • […] the best way for all practical purposes to show a person how to distinguish saltglaze is to point out the peculiar orange-peely nature of the surface.1907, The Connoisseur, page 119:
  • […] are usually just as crowded, just as peanutty, and just as orange-peely as those of a North American accommodation train.1917, Burton Holmes, Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. Buenos Aires. Over the Andes to Chile. To the Cataracts of the Iguassú. (Burton Holmes...
  • Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!1946, Dorothy Macardle, Fantastic Summer, London: Peter Davies, page 37:
  • The finish is not what it should be—paint thin, orange-peely and extremely easily chipped.1963, Road & Track, volume 15, page 10:

Forms of orange-peely

comparativemore orange-peely
superlativemost orange-peely

Origin of orange-peely

From orange peel + -y.

Questions about orange-peely

What does orange-peely mean?
Orange-peely means resembling or characteristic of orange peel.
How do you use orange-peely in a sentence?
[…] the best way for all practical purposes to show a person how to distinguish saltglaze is to point out the peculiar orange-peely nature of the surface.
What part of speech is orange-peely?
Orange-peely is an adjective.

Words near orange-peely in the dictionary

  1. Orange-Nassau
  2. orange-peel
  3. orange-peel bucket
  4. orange-peel buckets
  5. orange-peel fungus
  6. orange-peely
  7. orange-spotted
  8. orange-spotted bulbul
  9. orange-spotted bulbuls
  10. orange-spotted drone flies
  11. orange-spotted drone fly

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