mothballyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

mothbally ‎(comparative more mothbally, superlative most mothbally)

1. Resembling or suggesting mothballs, especially their distinctive odour.
   • 2009 March 13, Phoebe Eaton, “Liquid Assets”^[1], New York Times:

     A skinny blotter paper suffused with the rosy chemical geraniol and layered with a second blotter dipped in mothbally indole yields lily of the valley, which otherwise would require bales of tender white buds for just a few grams of essential oil.