Heard on Animal Planet: "Polar bears are amazingly _stealthful_."

[Neal Whitman]

There's also the noun-to-adjective conversion "stealth", used exactly as
you'd use "stealthy", presumably after interpreting it as such in compounds
like "stealth bomber".

This isn't big news; I've found it noted in either the Random House
Unabridged Dictionary or the OED (can't remember which). But it seemed
relevant.

Neal

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> Local/regional dialect in place of _stealthy_, like BE _boresome_
> instead of _boring_? Or just a slip of the tongue? Youneverknow.
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