tunnelly

tunnelly

English

Etymology

tunnel +‎ -y

Adjective

tunnelly (comparative more tunnelly, superlative most tunnelly)

1. 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...

Synonyms

• tunnellike