toilety

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From toilet +‎ -y.

Adjective[edit]

toilety (comparative more toilety, superlative most toilety)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a toilet.
    • 1992, Paul S[ingh] Sunga, The Lions, Victoria, B.C.: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, chapter one, section I, page 1:
      Here he was concealed at least, although the thick, toilety smell ruined the flavour of the thing he ate.
    • 2000, Patricia O’Reilly, Once Upon a Summer, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, pages 134–135:
      When Kate lifted the latch and creaked open the door, it was not the buzzing of bluebottles they noticed, but the smell — a toilety smell overlaid with Jeyes Fluid.
    • 2000, Colin Firth, “The Department of Nothing”, in Nick Hornby, editor, Speaking with the Angel, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 71:
      Grandma’s room was getting really stinky now. It had always been a bit stinky but this was more toilety now – and it hadn’t been irksome before, but it was now.
    • 2003, Amanda Kirby, Sharon Drew, Guide to Dyspraxia and Developmental Coordination Disorders, London: David Fulton Publishers, →ISBN, page 93:
      Difficulty with bottom wiping – teenagers often go through a ‘dirty’ stage and are more sweaty and smelly but they usually do not to have a ‘toilety’ smell.
    • 2017, Jennifer Brown, Pennybaker School Is Headed for Disaster, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 177:
      There was an echoey thud, a splash that sounded very toilety in nature, and then, “I’m in!”
    • 2020, Sam Lloyd, The Memory Wood, Bantam Press, →ISBN:
      There’s a toilety smell about the place, mingling with the stench of something even fouler.