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port-winey

port-winey is the alternative form of port-winy.

Meaning of port-winy

Adjective

port-winy (comparative more port-winy, superlative most port-winy)

  1. Having the taste, smell, colour or other qualities of port wine.
    • “You’re a good lass,” he remarked one evening, in a very port-winey whisper.1883, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Winning Shot” in Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Martin H. Greenberg (editors), Vampire Stories, New York: Skyhorse, 2009, p. 88 (first published in Bow Bells, 11 July, 1883)

Forms of port-winey

comparativemore port-winey
superlativemost port-winey

Questions about port-winey

What is port-winey the alternative form of?
Port-winey is the alternative form of port-winy.

Words near port-winey in the dictionary

  1. Port-Vila
  2. port-wine mark
  3. port-wine marks
  4. port-wine stain
  5. port-wine stains
  6. port-winey
  7. port-winy
  8. Port.
  9. porta
  10. porta-
  11. porta-potties

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