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port-winy

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

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adj

Meaning 1

Having the taste, smell, colour or other qualities of port wine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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), “You’re a good lass,” he remarked one evening, in a very port-winey whisper.

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History

Etymology

From port wine + -y.