pickley

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1. alternativeAlternative form of pickly.

   Ah, the pickley smell of ditto ink; […]

   2000, Martin J. Gidron, The Severed Wing, Livingston Press, →ISBN, page 47

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   […] besides beans there were celery, onion, tomato, cucumber, sliced broccoli stem, and grape leaves, the last perhaps contributing a faint pickley flavor.

   1971, À la Vôtre, page 221

   My father’s white shirt and khaki trousers were soon covered with orange oil and a delicious pickley smell.

   1973, Shankar’s Weekly, page 12

   If you’ve installed urea formaldehyde foam (UF) and haven’t detected its peculiar, pickley smell, you might still want to air your house out more frequently.

   1980, Environmental Action, page 14

   Smells old before its time, with leathery, nutty aromas; weedy, pickley flavors.

   1989, Wine Spectator, page 57

   We were the only girls who frequently brought money (25 cents) instead of a homemade lunch, and went off the schoolyard around the corner to stand in line, surrounded by delicious greasy, pickley smells, to buy hot hamburgers with shining moisture dots on the brown buns.

   1998, Lyn Andrews, editor, Contemporary Authors, Gale Research, →ISBN, page 148