winy
/ˈwaɪni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "grapes of a winy taste"
- "1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, V. Century, p. 125, 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."
- "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."
- "The sun had the lovely strong winey warmth, golden over the dark-blue sea."
- "The sleeve-buttons were topazes, winy-yellow, lightly set in crinkly gold."
- "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."