dungeonish
English
Etymology
From dungeon + -ish.
Adjective
dungeonish (comparative more dungeonish, superlative most dungeonish)
- Characteristically like a dungeon
- 2000, Ian Whybrow, Little Wolf's Haunted Hall for Small Horrors, page 50:
- Yeller has given the cellar a more dungeonish smell with cabbage water and by poking old cheese into cracks.
- 2011, Victoria Pade, The Baby Deal:
- Along the way, she said, “That was the first thing I thought about the house, too—that all the dreary paneling down here makes it seem dungeonish. But wait till you see the orange bathroom upstairs and the candy-cane pink bedroom. […] ”
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