tinfoily

comparative tinfoilier · superlative tinfoiliest

1. Resembling or characteristic of tinfoil.

   “There’s a tinfoily blanket thing, a prescription bottle full of something. Pain pills?”

   2015, Jessica Clare, Jen Frederick, Last Hope, page 138

   2 more examples

   It tinkles. As it skitters along the ground, it makes a tinny, tinfoily little noise as its edges scrape along the concrete.

   2006, Michael Chorost, Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World, page 54

   The walls were festooned with silver and white tinfoily stuff, and on every table stood a tall slim vase, spilling over with sprayed silver flowers.

   2011, Molly Hopkins, It Happened in Paris, page 379

2. derogatoryinformalCharacteristic of or prone to paranoia or conspiracy theories.

   By the time you land an engineering gig at Apple, you are a twitchy, tinfoily mess.

   2019, Clive Thompson, quoting Blake Ross, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, page 75