bathtubby

English

Etymology

bathtub +‎ -y

Adjective

bathtubby (comparative more bathtubby, superlative most bathtubby)

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a bathtub.
   • 1912, Harper's Magazine, volume 125, page 969:

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

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

     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.

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

     Water creeps up my neck, warm and bathtubby.