mothbally

English

Etymology

From mothball +‎ -y.

Adjective

mothbally (comparative more mothbally, superlative most mothbally)

1. Resembling or suggesting mothballs, especially their distinctive odour.
   • 2009 March 13, Phoebe Eaton, “Liquid Assets”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     A skinny blotter paper suffused with the rosy chemical geraniol and layered with a second blotter dipped in mothbally indole yields lily of the valley, which otherwise would require bales of tender white buds for just a few grams of essential oil.