diesely
Collocations
3ADJ.
coarse, deep
VERB + DIESELY
became, bit, quiets
DIESELY + NOUN
growl, rumble
Definitions
adj
Characteristic of dieseling.
As the car drew closer the sound of the engine became a deep diesely rumble and I realised that it wasn't a car at all – it was a truck.
He throttles down, and the engines' roar quiets to a diesely growl.
Pertaining to, typical of, or filled with diesel fuel.
My apartment, and the garden, are just a block away from the busy intersection of Bathurst and Dupont, with its diesely bus lanes and truck traffic, but, barring an emergency-vehicle siren or an atypical outbreak of energy from the body-shop workers across the alley, the garden is calm, even meditative.
Let me tell you, under twenty feet of diesely mud-water, the flowing robes of the Order of St. Benedict don't flow — and rosaries on a belt can get tangled up to beat hell in corkscrewy windscreen wipers.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3As the car drew closer the sound of the engine became a deep diesely rumble and I realised that it wasn't a car at all – it was a truck.
WiktionaryHe throttles down, and the engines' roar quiets to a diesely growl.
WiktionaryYes, it sounds a bit coarse and diesely when you fire it up, but thereafter, it's sewing-machine smooth, nicely zingy and almost unbelievably economical.
Wiktionary