bathtubby

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1. informalResembling or characteristic of a bathtub.

   Water creeps up my neck, warm and bathtubby.

   2007, Eric Puchner, Music Through the Floor: Stories, page 181

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   I stride through my nursery domain / And the bathtubby ocean I scan; / While faithfully march in my train / Weird creatures of cotton and bran.

   1912, Harper's Magazine, volume 125, page 969

   I think opera recordings which present these big bathtubby sounds in extremely prominent positions, the way they would never be in the context of the opera, are a mistake, to my ear. I don't like that.

   1987, John Harvith, Susan Edwards Harvith, Edison, Musicians, and the Phonograph: A Century in Retrospect