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Flinty

//ˈflɪnti// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.

    "It was late at night and frosty; high above them on the hills the cloppety clop, cloppety clop of a horse's hooves picking their way on the flinty stone track died away in the distance."

  2. 2
    Siliceous (including basanite).

    "flinty rock"

  3. 3
    Showing a lack of emotion. figuratively

    "Public opinion has turned flintier in recent years on welfare spending."

  4. 4
    Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
Adjective
  1. 1
    showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings wordnet
  2. 2
    containing flint wordnet

Etymology

From flint + -y.

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