piny

comparative pinier · superlative piniest · alternative piney

1. Of, resembling, pertaining to, or having many pines.

   a piny fragrance

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   Near-synonym: pinelike

   The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but every thing is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps, which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.

   1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 29

   Jingle Bells, piney smells All the boys and the girls Say it’s cliched To be cynical At Christmas

   1993, “It's Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas”, in Trouble Over Bridgwater, performed by Half Man Half Biscuit

   Synonyms: pinelike

plural pinies

1. archaicdialectalA peony.