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.
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aseptic
aseptic \uh-SEP-tik\, adjective
1. Free from the living germs of disease, fermentation, or putrefaction.
noun:
1. A product, as milk or fruit juice, that is marketed in an aseptic package or container.
2. Aseptics, (used with a singular verb) a system of packaging sterilized products in airtight containers so that
freshness is preserved for several months.
The development of aseptic packaging is so highly regarded in food industry circles that in 1983 members of the Institute of Food Technologists? voted it the number-one food innovation in the last fifty years.
-- Vince Staten, Can You Trust a Tomato in January?
He was taken to an aseptic, white barracks on the opposite bank of the Moldau.
-- Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Aseptic was invented in the 1850s by chemists. It is based on the root septic meaning "infected."
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agita
agita \AJ-i-tuh\, noun
1. Agitation; anxiety.
2. Heartburn; indigestion.
And my being named after the patron saint of love, St. Valentine, when I've had nothing but agita in romance just makes it more painfully ironic.
-- Rosanna Chiofalo, Bellla Fortuna
I'm eighty-two years old and I don't need this agita in my life!
-- Rita Lakin, Getting Old Is Murder
Agita was coined in America in the 1980s. It comes from the Italian word agitare meaning "to bother."
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