tunnelly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tunnelly (comparative more tunnelly, superlative most tunnelly)
- Resembling or characterized by tunnels.
- 1922, Maud Monahan, Life and letters of Janet Erskine Stuart:
- This will be written under difficulties which you know — shaky trains, tunnelly ways, crowded carriages...
- 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:
- The snores of Mr. Malloy's tenants in the pipes have a deep tunnelly quality.
- 2007, Jennifer Egan, The Keep:
- It was dead, and not that tunnelly deadness of an open line — that would've been the sound of angels singing in heaven compared to this...