"diesely" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From diesel + -y.",
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    {
      "form": "more diesely",
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        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most diesely",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Mardi McConnochie, Melissa, Queen of Evil, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Carl Safina, Song for the Blue Ocean, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He throttles down, and the engines' roar quiets to a diesely growl.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jeremy Clarkson, Round the Bend, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Yes, 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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Characteristic of dieseling."
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        [
          "diesel",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Mark Kingwell, Marginalia: A Cultural Reader, →ISBN, page 32:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Sonny Brewer, Stories from the Blue Moon Café III, →ISBN, page 16:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, →ISBN, page 141:",
          "text": "Coll swung his big leather bag onto the diesely floor beside the driver's seat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Winona Kent, Cold Play, →ISBN:",
          "text": "It feels and smells dankish and diesely.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Pertaining to, typical of, or filled with diesel fuel."
      ],
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          "fuel",
          "fuel"
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  "word": "diesely"
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  "etymology_text": "From diesel + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more diesely",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most diesely",
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        "superlative"
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          "ref": "2007, Mardi McConnochie, Melissa, Queen of Evil, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Carl Safina, Song for the Blue Ocean, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He throttles down, and the engines' roar quiets to a diesely growl.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jeremy Clarkson, Round the Bend, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Yes, 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.",
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        "Characteristic of dieseling."
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Mark Kingwell, Marginalia: A Cultural Reader, →ISBN, page 32:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Sonny Brewer, Stories from the Blue Moon Café III, →ISBN, page 16:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, →ISBN, page 141:",
          "text": "Coll swung his big leather bag onto the diesely floor beside the driver's seat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Winona Kent, Cold Play, →ISBN:",
          "text": "It feels and smells dankish and diesely.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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  "word": "diesely"
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