Turpsy

Quick meaning: Turpsy is an adjective meaning soaked in or smelling of turpentine.

Meaning

soaked in or smelling of turpentine.

More Meanings

1. (of oil paint) heavily diluted with turpentine

Example Sentences

There was the fresh, turpsy smell of conifers, and from a quarter of a mile away the salty tang of shifting sea water.

Back at his canvas he drew some more with Prussian blue, wiped his hands on a turpsy rag, and went over to the telephone.

But another canvas of the same size [probably Studio II] was only just begun: it had been scribbled all over with a very loose turpsy mixture of ochre-honey colour with a biggish brush.

I had lived with him, scarcely conscious that he had an individual smell at all. But now I could recognise it at once - soapy, mentholy, a little sweaty, musky, turpsy. I passed the material under my nose, and his presence was filling my head.

Word Forms

• turpsier
• turpsiest

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include turpentiny, turpentiney, turpitudinous, turbinaceous, turbotlike, turdy.

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