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paraffiny, a.|ˈpærəfɪnɪ| [f. paraffin n. + y1.] Of, belonging to, or suggestive of paraffin; covered or smeared with paraffin; smelling of paraffin.
1902Conrad Youth 21 The ascending air was hot, and had a heavy, sooty, paraffiny smell. 1925B. Beetham in E. F. Norton Fight for Everest, 1924 iii. vi. 368 Paraffiny fingers will taint the whole canteen. 1952‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands vi. 93 A large wooden tray of tuppenny buns... They were crummy and depressed-looking,..and they smelled very faintly of paraffin{ddd}the paraffiny buns and the margarine. |