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Posted by : Najiba Wajiha Mahboob
Saturday, November 10, 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.