port-winy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It fell one night in the waning light by the Yukon’s oily flow, / I smoked and sat as I marvelled at the sky’s port-winey glow; [...]"
- "In spite of the somewhat port-winy and ponderous exterior of the doctor, he had a shrewd eye and was really a man of very remarkable sense [...]"
- "Her warm port-winey laugh filled all the bars."
Etymology
From port wine + -y.