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port-winy

port-winy adjective: having the taste, smell, colour or other qualities of port wine.

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)
    • It fell one night in the waning light by the Yukon’s oily flow, / I smoked and sat as I marvelled at the sky’s port-winey glow; [...]1909, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Ballad of One-eyed Mike”, in Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 52

Forms of port-winy

comparativemore port-winy
superlativemost port-winy
alternative formport-winey

Origin of port-winy

From port wine + -y.

Questions about port-winy

What does port-winy mean?
Port-winy means having the taste, smell, colour or other qualities of port wine.
What part of speech is port-winy?
Port-winy is an adjective.

Words near port-winy in the dictionary

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

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