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winier

winier is the comparative form 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

Questions about winier

What is winier the comparative form of?
Winier is the comparative form of winy.

Words near winier in the dictionary

  1. Winiarskis
  2. Winick
  3. Winicks
  4. Winiecki
  5. Winieckis
  6. winier
  7. winiest
  8. Winifred
  9. winika
  10. winily
  11. wininess

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