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dungeonish en · ADJ

Etymology

From dungeon + -ish.

Meanings

1. Characteristically like a dungeon
   • Along the way, she said, “That was the first thing I thought about the house, too—that all the dreary paneling down here makes it seem dungeonish. But wait till you see the orange bathroom upstairs and the candy-cane pink bedroom. […]” 2011, Victoria Pade, The Baby Deal:
   • Yeller has given the cellar a more dungeonish smell with cabbage water and by poking old cheese into cracks. 2000, Ian Whybrow, Little Wolf's Haunted Hall for Small Horrors, page 50:

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