orange-peely
adjEtymology From orange peel + -y.
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Resembling or characteristic of orange peel.
- 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:
- 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:
4 more examples
- […] 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:
- […] 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:
- Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!1946, Dorothy Macardle, Fantastic Summer, London: Peter Davies, page 37:
- The finish is not what it should be—paint thin, orange-peely and extremely easily chipped.1963, Road & Track, volume 15, page 10: