casky

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a cask.

“Alexander Montgomery, Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago […] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.”

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Meanings

adjectivecasky (comparative more casky, superlative most casky)

comparative more casky · superlative most casky

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a cask.

    Alexander Montgomery, Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago […] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.

    1 more example

    […] a rancid flavor, or one of rubber, plastic material, hydrocarbons, or a casky taste.

    1996, Emile Peynaud, Jacques Blouin, The Taste of Wine: The Art Science of Wine Appreciation, page 287

Origin

From cask + -y.

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