orange-peely
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of orange peel.
Example Sentences
- "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 bits of advice, as he stands behind the strong barrier opposite where the pigeon-hole is, and the man takes the shillings and gives you metal checks in exchange."
- "I went through orange-peely waste-paper baskets every day for weeks to find certain values of Pan-American stamps and stamped envelopes."
- "[…] 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."
- "[…] are usually just as crowded, just as peanutty, and just as orange-peely as those of a North American accommodation train."
- "Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!"
- "The finish is not what it should be—paint thin, orange-peely and extremely easily chipped."
Etymology
From orange peel + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more orange-peely (comparative)
most orange-peely (superlative)