What does dungeonish mean?
Dungeonish means Characteristically like a dungeon.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Characteristically like a dungeon.
Yeller has given the cellar a more dungeonish smell with cabbage water and by poking old cheese into cracks.
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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Dungeonish means Characteristically like a dungeon.
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Yeller has given the cellar a more dungeonish smell with cabbage water and by poking old cheese into cracks.
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