flinty
/ˈflɪnti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
adj
Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
Example Sentences
- "It was late at night and frosty; high above them on the hills the cloppety clop, cloppety clop of a horse's hooves picking their way on the flinty stone track died away in the distance."
- "flinty rock"
- "flinty slate"
- "Public opinion has turned flintier in recent years on welfare spending."
- "While the texture of his playing was often flinty, his licks and leads were flush with feeling."
- "Wines can be described with words like cigar box and “pencil lead,” or flinty or with hints of sandalwood — oenophiles can veer into what many might deem pretentiousness pretty quick."
Etymology
Etymology tree English flint Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English flinty From flint + -y.