Oniony

Quick meaning: Oniony is an adjective meaning Resembling an onion or onions, especially in terms of smell.

Meaning

Resembling an onion or onions, especially in terms of smell.

More Meanings

1. Flavoured with onions.
2. Resembling or characteristic of the satirical news website The Onion.

Example Sentences

The leaves of the Salad leek possess a somewhat oniony taste and smell, and are extensively eaten raw as a relish.

Many of these submissions were deleted for not having “an oniony quality” (seeming more like satire than news, not just a funny title) or being from an unreliable news source.

No more will the messenger boy, the rounder, or the girl about town be able to indulge in the oniony hamburger, the last year’s chicken sandwich, or any of the other edibles and indigestibles furnished by the wheeled commissaries.

Start with meatballs and a serving of whatever wood-grilled vegetables (delicata, Brussels sprouts) are on the menu, then grab a blistered, oniony Amatriciana pizza, slipped from the glinting copper Le Panyol oven at the rear of the restaurant.

Word Forms

• onionier
• onioniest
• onion-y

Synonyms for oniony

Depending on context, synonyms include onioned.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include onionlike, onion-y, cepaceous, onionized, alliaceous, garliclike.

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