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casky

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Resembling or characteristic of a cask.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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.

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From cask + -y.