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orange-peely en · ADJ

Etymology

From orange peel + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of orange peel.
   • The Pony’s paint leaves a lot to be desired. It looks like it was put on with a roller—not so much orange-peely as just plain rough. 1984 August, Michael Lamm, “Coming: Cars from Korea”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 161, number 8, page 112:
   • The finish is not what it should be—paint thin, orange-peely and extremely easily chipped. 1963, Road & Track, volume 15, page 10:
   • Or perhaps you’ve just been ignoring those pudgy, orange-peely dimples creeping down your thighs. 2006, Cherry Maslen, Linda Bird, Cellulite Solutions: Tips and Techniques to Lose the Lumps (52 Brilliant Ideas), Perigee, published 2007, →ISBN, page xiv:
   • For instance, it mistakenly describes cellulite as “waste products . . . stored under the skin, creating that ‘orange-peely look.’ 1998, Journal for the Study of Food and Society, page 1975:
   • […] 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. 1907, The Connoisseur, page 119:
   • I went through orange-peely waste-paper baskets every day for weeks to find certain values of Pan-American stamps and stamped envelopes. 1903, Mekeel’s Stamp Collector, volume 16, page 447:
   • Past RS K-bikes have been seriously flawed. Take your pick: smoking engines, toe-numbing vibration, sub-600-class acceleration, orange-peely paint that would have looked out of place on a Tijuana taxi, let alone a supposedly world-class sport-tourer. 1993, David Edwards, “Editors’ Notes”, in Cycle World, page 45:
   • Fluoropolymer-based powder coatings differ in several respects from the Kynar 500-based liquid finishes. Their appearance is more textured, or “orange-peely.” 1992, Architectural Record, volume 180, page 43:
   • 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. 1875 March 6, Geo[rge] Manville Fenn, “The Readings by Starlight”, in Once a Week, fourth series, volume II, London: […] [T]he Offices, […], page 7, column 1:
   • […] lack of good agitation and filtration resulted in rough, nodular deposits, which show through to the surface (orange-peely, locally distorted effect). 1965, Ferenc J. Schmidt, Irving J. Hess, Electroforming Aluminum for Solar Energy Concentrators, NASA, page 33:
   • Besides your thighs and upper arms are orange-peely and that always scares women. 1994, Michelene Wandor, Annie Castledine, editors, Plays by Women, volume 10, Methuen Publishing, →ISBN, page 58:
   • […] are usually just as crowded, just as peanutty, and just as orange-peely as those of a North American accommodation train. 1917, Burton Holmes, Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. Buenos Aires. Over the Andes to Chile. To the Cataracts of the Iguassú. (Burton Holmes Travelogues), page 267:
   • The finished result tends to be a bit ‘orange-peely’ so the technique is best restricted to less prestigious items, such as greetings cards and wrapping papers. 1999, Christopher Lumgair, Creative Design with Your Computer, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary, →ISBN, page 167:
   • Reduce and minimize the appearance of lumpy, dimpled, orange-peely skin conditions, commonly known as “cellulite.” 1986 November, Orange Coast, volume 12, number 11, Costa Mesa, Calif.: O.C.N.L., →ISSN, page 32:
   • […] orange-peely and it’s prone to stone chipping. 2004, Autocar, volume 239, page 22:
   • The new dials, which perhaps are less objectionable than the old, when the latter are very badly cracked or patched, are often hard to detect. They do, however, tend to look rather like the photographs which they are, and also to have an “orange-peely” look when viewed along their surfaces. 1974, Charles Allix, Carriage Clocks: Their History & Development, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, →ISBN, page 187, column 2:
   • Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy! 1946, Dorothy Macardle, Fantastic Summer, London: Peter Davies, page 37:
   • Then they’d put their orange peels under the bunk and just leave them there, and the whole barracks used to have a sort of orange-peely smell. 2001, former member, RCAF (WD), “Pretty rough-and-tumble”, in Carolyn Gossage, Greatcoats and Glamour Boots: Canadian Women at War (1939–1945), revised edition, Toronto, Ont.; Oxford, Oxon: The Dundurn Group, →ISBN, page 176:
   • Among other things, respondent’s expert found a “tight, dry, ‘orange-peely’ texture” and “[c]lear-coat runs” in repainted areas on the vehicle. 2008, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California, page 1636:

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