Fromorange peel +‎-y.

orange-peely (comparativemoreorange-peely,superlativemostorange-peely)

1. Resembling or characteristic oforange peel.
   • 1875 March 6,Geo[rge] Manville Fenn, “The Readings by Starlight”, inOnce a Week, fourth series, volume II, London:[…][T]he Offices, […], page 7, column 1:

     THERE’S the same sawdusty,orange-peely, gasy smell; the same apparently endless stairs to climb, sir; the same wired-round gaslights; the same pushing and crushing; men laughing, women laughing or crying; the same policeman telling people not to push, or to “be easy there,” and giving other little bits of advice, as he stands behind the strong barrier opposite where the pigeon-hole is, and the man takes the shillings and gives you metal checks in exchange.

   • 1903,Mekeel’s Stamp Collector, volume16, page447:

     I went throughorange-peely waste-paper baskets every day for weeks to find certain values of Pan-American stamps and stamped envelopes.

   • 1907,The Connoisseur, page119:

     […] the best way for all practical purposes to show a person how to distinguish saltglaze is to point out the peculiarorange-peely nature of the surface.

   • 1917,Burton Holmes,Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. Buenos Aires. Over the Andes to Chile. To the Cataracts of the Iguassú. (Burton Holmes Travelogues), page267:

     […] are usually just as crowded, just as peanutty, and just asorange-peely as those of a North American accommodation train.

   • 1946,Dorothy Macardle,Fantastic Summer, London: Peter Davies, page37:

     Everything’s so stale andorange-peely and fish-and-chippy!

   • 1963,Road & Track, volume15, page10:

     The finish is not what it should be—paint thin,orange-peely and extremely easily chipped.

   • 1965, Ferenc J. Schmidt, Irving J. Hess,Electroforming Aluminum for Solar Energy Concentrators,NASA, page33:

     […] lack of good agitation and filtration resulted in rough, nodular deposits, which show through to the surface (orange-peely, locally distorted effect).

   • 1974, Charles Allix,Carriage Clocks: Their History & Development, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club,→ISBN,page187, column 2:

     The new dials, which perhaps are less objectionable than the old, when the latter are very badly cracked or patched, are often hard to detect. They do, however, tend to look rather like the photographs which they are, and also to have an “orange-peely” look when viewed along their surfaces.

   • 1984 August, Michael Lamm, “Coming: Cars from Korea”, inPopular Mechanics, volume161, number 8, page112:

     The Pony’s paint leaves a lot to be desired. It looks like it was put on with a roller—not so muchorange-peely as just plain rough.

   • 1986 November,Orange Coast, volume12, number11, Costa Mesa, Calif.: O.C.N.L.,→ISSN, page32:

     Reduce and minimize the appearance of lumpy, dimpled,orange-peely skin conditions, commonly known as “cellulite.”

   • 1992,Architectural Record, volume180, page43:

     Fluoropolymer-based powder coatings differ in several respects from the Kynar 500-based liquid finishes. Their appearance is more textured, or “orange-peely.”

   • 1993, David Edwards, “Editors’ Notes”, inCycle World, page45:

     Past RS K-bikes have been seriously flawed. Take your pick: smoking engines, toe-numbing vibration, sub-600-class acceleration,orange-peely paint that would have looked out of place on a Tijuana taxi, let alone a supposedly world-class sport-tourer.

   • 1994,Michelene Wandor,Annie Castledine, editors,Plays by Women, volume10,Methuen Publishing,→ISBN, page58:

     Besides your thighs and upper arms areorange-peely and that always scares women.

   • 1998,Journal for the Study of Food and Society, page1975:

     For instance, it mistakenly describes cellulite as “waste products . . . stored under the skin, creating that ‘orange-peely look.’

   • 1999, Christopher Lumgair,Creative Design with Your Computer,McGraw-Hill/Contemporary,→ISBN, page167:

     The finished result tends to be a bit ‘orange-peely’ so the technique is best restricted to less prestigious items, such as greetings cards and wrapping papers.

   • 2001, former member, RCAF (WD), “Pretty rough-and-tumble”, in Carolyn Gossage,Greatcoats and Glamour Boots: Canadian Women at War (1939–1945), revised edition, Toronto, Ont., Oxford, Oxon:The Dundurn Group,→ISBN,page176:

     Then they’d put their orange peels under the bunk and just leave them there, and the whole barracks used to have a sort oforange-peely smell.

   • 2004,Autocar, volume239, page22:

     […]orange-peely and it’s prone to stone chipping.

   • 2006, Cherry Maslen, Linda Bird,Cellulite Solutions: Tips and Techniques to Lose the Lumps (52 Brilliant Ideas),Perigee, published2007,→ISBN, page xiv:

     Or perhaps you’ve just been ignoring those pudgy,orange-peely dimples creeping down your thighs.

   • 2008,Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California, page1636:

     Among other things, respondent’s expert found a “tight, dry, ‘orange-peely’ texture” and “[c]lear-coat runs” in repainted areas on the vehicle.

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