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casky

casky adjective: resembling or characteristic of a cask.

Adjective

casky (comparative more casky, superlative most casky)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a cask.
    • Alexander Montgomery, Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago
      […] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.
    • […] a rancid flavor, or one of rubber, plastic material, hydrocarbons, or a casky taste.1996, Emile Peynaud, Jacques Blouin, The Taste of Wine: The Art Science of Wine Appreciation, page 287

Forms of casky

comparativemore casky
superlativemost casky

Origin of casky

From cask + -y.

Questions about casky

What does casky mean?
Casky means resembling or characteristic of a cask.
What part of speech is casky?
Casky is an adjective.

Words near casky in the dictionary

  1. caskfuls
  2. casking
  3. casklike
  4. casks
  5. casksful
  6. casky
  7. Casler
  8. Caslers
  9. Caslon
  10. Casluhim
  11. Casluhite

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