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dungeony en · ADJ

Etymology

From dungeon + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a dungeon.
   • The restaurant proper is dungeony, the red walls hung with the required bullfight pictures, the rough plaster ceiling adorned with non-supporting beams, the air filled with talk, […] 1981, Seymour Britchky, The restaurants of New York, page 252:
   • As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […] 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “(please specify the story)”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:

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