"tinfoily" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2006, Michael Chorost, Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World, page 54:",
          "text": "It tinkles. As it skitters along the ground, it makes a tinny, tinfoily little noise as its edges scrape along the concrete.",
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          "ref": "2011, Molly Hopkins, It Happened in Paris, page 379:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "“There’s a tinfoily blanket thing, a prescription bottle full of something. Pain pills?”",
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