Meaning of orange-peely | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of orange peel.

Examples

“THERE’S the same sawdusty, orange-peely, gasy smell; the same apparently endless stairs to climb, sir; the same wired-round gaslights; the same pushing and crushing; men laughing, women laughing or crying; the same policeman telling people not to push, or to “be easy there,” and giving other little bits of advice, as he stands behind the strong barrier opposite where the pigeon-hole is, and the man takes the shillings and gives you metal checks in exchange.”

“I went through orange-peely waste-paper baskets every day for weeks to find certain values of Pan-American stamps and stamped envelopes.”

“[…] the best way for all practical purposes to show a person how to distinguish saltglaze is to point out the peculiar orange-peely nature of the surface.”

“[…] are usually just as crowded, just as peanutty, and just as orange-peely as those of a North American accommodation train.”

“Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!”

“The finish is not what it should be—paint thin, orange-peely and extremely easily chipped.”

“[…] lack of good agitation and filtration resulted in rough, nodular deposits, which show through to the surface (orange-peely, locally distorted effect).”

“The new dials, which perhaps are less objectionable than the old, when the latter are very badly cracked or patched, are often hard to detect. They do, however, tend to look rather like the photographs which they are, and also to have an “orange-peely” look when viewed along their surfaces.”

“The Pony’s paint leaves a lot to be desired. It looks like it was put on with a roller—not so much orange-peely as just plain rough.”

“Reduce and minimize the appearance of lumpy, dimpled, orange-peely skin conditions, commonly known as “cellulite.””

“Fluoropolymer-based powder coatings differ in several respects from the Kynar 500-based liquid finishes. Their appearance is more textured, or “orange-peely.””

“Past RS K-bikes have been seriously flawed. Take your pick: smoking engines, toe-numbing vibration, sub-600-class acceleration, orange-peely paint that would have looked out of place on a Tijuana taxi, let alone a supposedly world-class sport-tourer.”

“Besides your thighs and upper arms are orange-peely and that always scares women.”

“For instance, it mistakenly describes cellulite as “waste products . . . stored under the skin, creating that ‘orange-peely look.’”

“The finished result tends to be a bit ‘orange-peely’ so the technique is best restricted to less prestigious items, such as greetings cards and wrapping papers.”

“Then they’d put their orange peels under the bunk and just leave them there, and the whole barracks used to have a sort of orange-peely smell.”

“[…] orange-peely and it’s prone to stone chipping.”

“Or perhaps you’ve just been ignoring those pudgy, orange-peely dimples creeping down your thighs.”

“Among other things, respondent’s expert found a “tight, dry, ‘orange-peely’ texture” and “[c]lear-coat runs” in repainted areas on the vehicle.”

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