vinous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Middle English vinous, vinose (“consisting of, containing, or made of wine”), from Latin vīnōsus (“fond of wine; wine-flavoured”), from vīnum (“wine”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’).
Inflected forms:
form: more vinous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vinous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.
pos: adj
examples: The man who firſt tranſplanted the grape of Burgundy to the Cape of Good Hope (obſerve he was a Dutchman) never dreamt of drinking the ſame wine at the Cape, that the ſame grape produced upon the French mountains—he was too phlegmatic for that—but undoubtedly he expected to drink ſome ſort of vinous liquor; […]
gloss: Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.
pos: adj
examples: The bride, in passing down stairs, dressed for her journey, found Tom waiting for her—flushed, either with his feelings, or the vinous part of the breakfast.
gloss: Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: winelike, wine-dark, wine-blue
[…] François' quick eye detected the presence of some very small birds moving among the blossoms. They were at once pronounced to be humming-birds, and of that species known as the "ruby-throats" (Trochilus rolubris), so called, because a flake of a beautiful vinous colour under the throat of the males exhibits, in the sun, all the glancing glories of the ruby.
Day was breaking, and the sheets of talc in the walls were filled with a vinous colour.
gloss: Tending to drink wine excessively.
pos: adj
examples: Yet fat and vinous old Jack Falstaff, whose portraiture is the happiest hit in all the varied range of English comedy, must be sought for in other scenes.
Curiosity induced him to ask the wild-eyed vinous old man if he knew the lady.
Old Simon the Soaker now keeps a rare store / Of Malmsey and Malvoisie / In tub-fuls of hundreds of litres or more, / For a vinous old soul is he—e, / A porous old so—ul is he; […]
It is one of the most trying things about this life, this necessity of laughing uproariously when vinous old men say things that are dirty but not funny; else one is written down as a prig.
She was found wounded and amnesic by a vinous old farmer who, charitable and eccentric (or just radiantly bonkers), nursed her back to health in some ramshackle barn or outbuilding of his after the local Gendarmerie had investigated, photographed, swept up and hosed down the crash scene.
gloss: Affected by the drinking of wine.
pos: adj
examples: The vinous Greek to whom he had address'd / His question, much too merry to divine / The questioner, fill'd up a glass of wine, […]
"Come, come," said James, putting his hand to his nose and winking at his cousin with a pair of vinous eyes, "no jokes, old boy; no trying it on on me.[…]"
Once she had been kissed by a man in wine (the memory recalled Lady Tynewood and the parties she gave) and she had never forgotten the hated smell of that vinous breath.
In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
[S]he threw up her hands, sank into a chair and went off into a deep vinous sleep.
Gripped by a vinous pentecost, I launched into speech: […]
It was a moment of bathos and anticlimax; a poor sequel to my smoke-ringed, vinous reverie on American grandeur the previous night.
Synonyms: vinose
Related words: vinosity
viny
wineful
wino
Derived words: vinous alcohol
vinous liquor
vinously
vinousness
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: روحاني
roman: rawḥāniyy, rūḥāniyy
lang: Bulgarian
word: винвн
roman: vinvn
lang: Dutch
word: wijnachtig
lang: Finnish
word: viinimäinen
lang: Finnish
word: viininen
lang: French
word: vineux
lang: Old French
word: vineus
lang: Georgian
word: ღვინის
roman: ɣvinis
lang: Georgian
word: ღვინისებური
roman: ɣviniseburi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: οἴνινος
roman: oíninos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: οἰνηρός
roman: oinērós
lang: Irish
word: fíonda
lang: Italian
word: vinoso
lang: Latin
word: vīneus
lang: Latin
word: vīnōsus
lang: Middle English
word: vinous
lang: Middle English
word: wyny
lang: Polish
word: winny
lang: Portuguese
word: vínico
lang: Russian
word: винно-кра́сный
roman: vinno-krásnyj
lang: Spanish
word: vinoso
lang: Spanish
word: vínico