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winey

winey is the alternative spelling of winy.

Meaning of winy

Adjective

winy (comparative winier, superlative winiest)

  1. Having the taste or qualities of wine.
    • grapes of a winy taste
  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.1853, R. S. Surtees, chapter 43, in Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour, New York: Stringer & Townsend, published 1856, page 269
    Synonyms:
    vinous

Forms of winey

comparativemore winey
superlativemost winey

Questions about winey

What is winey the alternative spelling of?
Winey is the alternative spelling of winy.

Words near winey in the dictionary

  1. winetrough
  2. winetroughs
  3. winevat
  4. winevats
  5. wineware
  6. winey
  7. wineyness
  8. Winfarthing
  9. Winfield
  10. Winfields
  11. Winford

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Adapted from Wiktionary: winey (page history and authors); winy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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