Winy

//ˈwaɪni// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the taste or qualities of wine.

    "grapes of a winy taste"

  2. 2
    Relating to the effects of drinking wine; especially, winedrunk.

    "It was late on the morning following our last chapter, ere he thought he had got rid of as much of his winy headache as fitful sleep would carry off, and enveloped himself in a blue and yellow-flowered silk dressing-gown and Turkish slippers."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having the taste of wine wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
vinousalcoholicardenthardspirituousstrong

Example

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"1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, V. Century, p. 125, Take Cucumbers, or Pumpions, and set them (here and there) amongst Muske-Melons, and see whether the Melons will not be more Winy, and better tasted."

Etymology

From Middle English wyny; equivalent to wine + -y.

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