Meaning of port-winy | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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.”

“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.”

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