winy

English

Alternative forms

• winey

Etymology

From Middle English wyny; equivalent to wine +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wīnʹi, IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪni/

Rhymes: -aɪni

• Homophone: whiny (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Adjective

winy (comparative winier, superlative winiest)

1. Having the taste or qualities of wine.

   grapes of a winy taste

   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, V. Century, p. 125,^[1]

     Take Cucumbers, or Pumpions, and set them (here and there) amongst Muske-Melons, and see whether the Melons will not be more Winy, and better tasted.

   • 1697, William Dampier, chapter XIV, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 392:

     They are much like ſuch Grapes as grow on our Vines, both in ſhape and colour; and they are of a very pleaſant Winy taſte.

   • 1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Sea”, in Sea and Sardinia, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 65:

     The sun had the lovely strong winey warmth, golden over the dark-blue sea.

   • 1926, Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy‎^[2], New York: Vintage, published 1961, Part I, Chapter 4, p. 34:

     The sleeve-buttons were topazes, winy-yellow, lightly set in crinkly gold.

2. Relating to the effects of drinking wine.
   • 1853, R. S. Surtees, chapter 43, in Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour‎^[3], New York: Stringer & Townsend, published 1856, page 269:

     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.

   • 1924, Arthur Stringer, chapter 20, in Empty Hands‎^[4], New York: A.L. Burt:

     This, however, did not altogether account for the winey intoxication of happiness that filled her body.

   • 1926, Eric Rücker Eddison, chapter 15, in The Worm Ouroboros‎^[5], New York: Ballantine Books, published 1967, page 249:

     […] our banquet was turned by him to a battle and our winey mirths to bloody rages.

   • 1963, Sylvia Plath, chapter 19, in The Bell Jar‎^[6], London: Faber & Faber, published 1966:

     I thought how lucky it was I had started practising birth control during the day, because in my winey state that night I would never have bothered to perform the delicate and necessary operation.

Synonyms

• (having the qualities of wine): vinous

Derived terms

• port-winy
• winily
• wininess

References

• “winy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.nɨ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -inɨ
• Syllabification: wi‧ny

Noun

winy f

1. inflection of wina:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural