tinfoily

English

Etymology

From tinfoil +‎ -y.

Adjective

tinfoily (comparative tinfoilier, superlative tinfoiliest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of tinfoil.
    • 2006, Michael Chorost, Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World‎[1], page 54:
      It tinkles. As it skitters along the ground, it makes a tinny, tinfoily little noise as its edges scrape along the concrete.
    • 2011, Molly Hopkins, It Happened in Paris‎[2], page 379:
      The walls were festooned with silver and white tinfoily stuff, and on every table stood a tall slim vase, spilling over with sprayed silver flowers.
    • 2015, Jessica Clare, Jen Frederick, Last Hope‎[3], page 138:
      “There’s a tinfoily blanket thing, a prescription bottle full of something. Pain pills?”
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tinfoily.
  2. (informal, derogatory) Characteristic of or prone to paranoia or conspiracy theories.
    • 2019, Clive Thompson, quoting Blake Ross, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World‎[4], page 75:
      By the time you land an engineering gig at Apple, you are a twitchy, tinfoily mess.
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