oniony

See also: onion-y and Oniony

English

Alternative forms

• onion-y

Etymology 1

From onion +‎ -y.

Adjective

oniony (comparative onionier, superlative onioniest)

1. Resembling an onion or onions, especially in terms of smell.
   • 1910, George P. Foaden, F. Fletcher, editors, Text-Book of Egyptian Agriculture, Cairo: National Printing Department, page 545:

     The leaves of the Salad leek possess a somewhat oniony taste and smell, and are extensively eaten raw as a relish.

2. Flavoured with onions.

   Synonym: onioned

   • 1900 May 17, “All Night Lunch Wagons. Proposed City Law With a Tax of $100 Each Will Drive Them Away.”, in Evening World-Herald, Omaha, Neb., page 7, column 3:

     No more will the messenger boy, the rounder, or the girl about town be able to indulge in the oniony hamburger, the last year’s chicken sandwich, or any of the other edibles and indigestibles furnished by the wheeled commissaries.

   • 2010 October 13, Alice-Azania Jarvis, “Fancy a Malaysian?”, in The Independent, number 7,489, page 44:

     In a cool, colonial dining room overlooking the Malacca river, he demonstrates three such recipes: a mellow, mushroomy chicken curry (ayam pong the), a fiery okra salad (sambal bendeh), and – a personal favourite – a spicy, oniony shrimp-paste omelette (cincalock omelette).

   • 2023 January 15, Andrew Ross, “The best 75 places to eat and drink in Greater Portland”, in Maine Sunday Telegram, volume 135, number 31, page F4:

     Start with meatballs and a serving of whatever wood-grilled vegetables (delicata, Brussels sprouts) are on the menu, then grab a blistered, oniony Amatriciana pizza, slipped from the glinting copper Le Panyol oven at the rear of the restaurant.

Translations

resembling onion

• Finnish: sipulinen (fi); sipulin makuinen (tasting like onion); sipulin tuoksuinen (smelling like onion)
• Portuguese: acebolado (pt) m

Etymology 2

From the mock news outlet The Onion.

Adjective

oniony (comparative more oniony, superlative most oniony)

1. Resembling or characteristic of 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^[1]:

     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, Marco Werman, The World from PRX‎^[2]:

     ... 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.