2012_04_26 Adenoidal adj. 挤压和鼻的音质。pinched and nasal in tone quality.

Word of the Day for Thursday, April 26, 2012
adenoidal \ad-n-OID-l\, adjective:
1. Being characteristically pinched and nasal in tone quality.
2. Of or pertaining to the adenoids; adenoid.
3. Having the adenoids enlarged, especially to a degree that interferes with normal breathing.
"Quite the good, old-fashioned type of servant," as Miss Marple explained afterward, and with the proper, inaudible, respectful voice, so different from the loud but adenoidal accents of Gladys.
 -- Agatha Christie, Three Blind Mice
Then just as suddenly the sensation was gone and I heard a shrill, adenoidal voice that swallowed most of its soft consonants…
 -- Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
Adenoidal only entered English in the 1910s, referring to the glands near the nasal passage.
1。作为典型的挤压和鼻的音质。
2。或有关的腺样体;腺样。
3。腺样体增大，尤其是在一定程度上妨碍正常呼吸。

“相当不错，老式的仆人，”马普尔小姐解释之后，正确的，无声的，恭敬的声音，所以从格拉迪斯的响亮，但腺样体肥大口音不同。
- 阿加莎·克里斯蒂，三只瞎眼的老鼠

然后突然之间的感觉不见了，我听到了刺耳的，腺样体肥大的吞食其软辅音的声音......
- 查尔斯·约翰逊，中间通道

腺样体肥大仅在1910年进入英语，指的是鼻腔附近的腺体。