flinty

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
    — It was late at night and frosty; high above them on the hills the cloppety clop, cloppety clop of a horse's hooves picking their way on the flinty stone track died away in the distance.
  2. Siliceous (including basanite).
    — flinty rock
  3. Showing a lack of emotion. figuratively
    — Public opinion has turned flintier in recent years on welfare spending.
  4. Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
    — Wines can be described with words like cigar box and “pencil lead,” or flinty or with hints of sandalwood — oenophiles can veer into what many might deem pretentiousness pretty quick.

词形变化

flintier comparative more flinty comparative flintiest superlative most flinty superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
flintily flintiness flinty-eyed unflinty

词源

Etymology tree
English flint
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English flinty
From flint + -y.
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