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Contrived gland idea not good, containing nothing regarding certain glands
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adenoidal
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ She's probably upset because her boyfriend doesn't want to go out with her on account of her amusing adenoidal accent. ▪ The adenoidal whine of their accents dulled her hearing, and the smoke of their cigarettes made her ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1852, from adenoid (gland) (see adenoid ) + -al (1).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or pertaining to the adenoids sounding as if the nose were pinched; "a whining nasal voice" [syn: pinched , nasal ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adenoid \Ad"e*noid\, Adenoidal \Ad`e*noid"al\a. Glandlike; glandular.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context anatomy English) Pertaining to the adenoids 2 (context of a voice English) Sounding as if the speaker had swollen adenoids
Usage examples of adenoidal.
Through the space between slack lips, Vicki could hear heavy adenoidal breathing.
He passed a group of technicians, not quickly enough to avoid hearing the reason for the scene: the hyperbolic paraboloid dome of the new church had a refractory habit of throwing down tinny echoes, as if a whiny, adenoidal God were parodically repeating everything said.
Southsickness in its tertiary stage, whispered that adenoidal Saxon youth who was Mondaugen's doubleganger: beware, beware.
The adenoidal voice and upper-class British accent belonged to Cyril Langhorne, an ace cryptographer and cipher clerk.
It was a nice afternoon, too nice to spoil with the car radio's hit parade lineup of adenoidal retards.
Wemyss's adenoidal snoring reached me, reduced to a soothing buzz by the thickness of the intervening doors.