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toilety en · ADJ

Etymology

From toilet + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a toilet.
   • When Kate lifted the latch and creaked open the door, it was not the buzzing of bluebottles they noticed, but the smell — a toilety smell overlaid with Jeyes Fluid. 2000, Patricia O’Reilly, Once Upon a Summer, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, pages 134–135:
   • Here he was concealed at least, although the thick, toilety smell ruined the flavour of the thing he ate. 1992, Paul S[ingh] Sunga, The Lions, Victoria, B.C.: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, chapter one, section I, page 1:
   • There’s a toilety smell about the place, mingling with the stench of something even fouler. 2020, Sam Lloyd, The Memory Wood, Bantam Press, →ISBN:
   • There was an echoey thud, a splash that sounded very toilety in nature, and then, “I’m in!” 2017, Jennifer Brown, Pennybaker School Is Headed for Disaster, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 177:
   • Difficulty with bottom wiping – teenagers often go through a ‘dirty’ stage and are more sweaty and smelly but they usually do not to have a ‘toilety’ smell. 2003, Amanda Kirby, Sharon Drew, Guide to Dyspraxia and Developmental Coordination Disorders, London: David Fulton Publishers, →ISBN, page 93:
   • Grandma’s room was getting really stinky now. It had always been a bit stinky but this was more toilety now – and it hadn’t been irksome before, but it was now. 2000, Colin Firth, “The Department of Nothing”, in Nick Hornby, editor, Speaking with the Angel, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 71:

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