adenoidal
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔɪdəl
Adjective
adenoidal (comparative more adenoidal, superlative most adenoidal)
- (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the adenoids.
- Sounding as if the speaker has swollen adenoids. (of a voice)
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 344:
- There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return.
- 1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 68:
- Metzger, acting on instructions in the will, had retained this amiable, slightly adenoidal expert, for a percent of his valuation, to inventory and appraise Inverarity's stamp collection.
- 2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times:
- Neither man has an alternative career in audiobook narration awaiting him upon retirement. Ron DeSantis speaks in a sort of monotone nag. Rishi Sunak can sound adenoidal.
Derived terms
Translations
pertaining to the adenoids
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sounding as if the speaker has swollen adenoids
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.deˌnɔjˈdaw/ [a.deˌnɔɪ̯ˈdaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.dɨˌnɔjˈdal/ [ɐ.ðɨˌnɔjˈðaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.dɨˌnɔjˈda.li/ [ɐ.ðɨˌnɔjˈða.li]
- Rhymes: -al
- Hyphenation: a‧de‧noi‧dal
Adjective
adenoidal m or f (plural adenoidais)
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