oniony

English

Etymology 1

onion + -y

Adjective

oniony (comparative onionier, superlative onioniest)

  1. Resembling an onion or onions, especially in terms of smell.
Translations

Etymology 2

From the mock news outlet The Onion.

Adjective

oniony (comparative more oniony, superlative most oniony)

  1. Resembling the satirical news website The Onion.
    • 2019 January 29, Dawn Graham, “Fake news or not? Using natural language processing to identify articles”, in Towards Data Science:
      Many of these submissions were deleted for not having “an oniony quality” (seeming more like satire than news, not just a funny title) or being from an unreliable news source.
    • 2012 September 1, Marco Werman, The World from PRX:
      ... it only took a little while for someone to point out this distinctly Oniony headline which appeared on the FARS website recently. "Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama." Well, it turns out the headline and full article were pulled from The Onion and ran as a FARS news story.
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