What does port-winy mean?
Port-winy means Having the taste, smell, colour or other qualities of port wine..
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Having the taste, smell, colour or other qualities of port wine..
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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Port-winy means Having the taste, smell, colour or other qualities of port wine..
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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.
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