dungeony

English

Etymology

From dungeon +‎ -y.

Adjective

dungeony (comparative more dungeony, superlative most dungeony)

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a dungeon.
   • 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Strictly Business‎^[1]:

     As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]

   • 1981, Seymour Britchky, The restaurants of New York, page 252:

     The restaurant proper is dungeony, the red walls hung with the required bullfight pictures, the rough plaster ceiling adorned with non-supporting beams, the air filled with talk, […]