gunpowderous

English

Etymology

gunpowder +‎ -ous

Adjective

gunpowderous (comparative more gunpowderous, superlative most gunpowderous)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of gunpowder.
    • 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, “[S]till his philanthropy was of that ’’’gunpowderous’’’ sort, that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.”, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:
    • 1966, David Benedictus, This Animal is Mischievous, page 54:
      I and my companions were seated, but as I tried to adopt the cross-legged posture of the other guests, a gunpowderous crack from the joints of one of my knees broke, I thought, the spell of the séance rather.
    • 1990, Simon Louvish, The Last Trump of Avram Blok, page 294:
      Asher and Blok rushed through the cordite-reeking jacaranda trees, past the gunpowderous pines, the saltpetre palms, and the ammonia-scented azaleas, […]
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