vinous

From Latin vīnōsus, from vīnum (“wine”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪ.nəs/

vinous (comparative more vinous, superlative most vinous)

1. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.
   • 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy,

     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 […]

   • 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book I, Chapter 16,

     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.

   • 1854, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Young Voyageurs, or, The Boy Hunters in the North, Chapter 21,

     […] 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.

2. Tending to drink wine excessively.
   • 1855, Frederick William Shelton, Peeps from a Belfry; Or: The Parish Sketch Book, page 146:

     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.

   • 1883, Fun - Volumes 37-38, page 168:

     Curiosity induced him to ask the wild-eyed vinous old man if he knew the lady.

   • 1898, Punch - Volume 114, page 309:

     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

   • 1899, Raymond Asquith, Letter to HT Baker (in Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters, 1980):

     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.

   • 2016, Christopher Chase Walker, The Visitor, →ISBN:

     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.

3. Affected by the drinking of wine.
   • 1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto III,

     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,

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 34,

     “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. […] ”

   • 1927, Edgar Wallace, The Man Who Was Nobody, Chapter 23,

     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.

4. Induced by the drinking of wine.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], OCLC 13623666, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:

     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.

   • 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3,

     […] she threw up her hands, sank into a chair and went off into a deep vinous sleep.

   • 1928, Robert Byron, The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece, Chapter 9,

     Gripped by a vinous pentecost, I launched into speech […]

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 254:

     It was a moment of bathos and anticlimax; a poor sequel to my smoke-ringed, vinous reverie on American grandeur the previous night.

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vino +‎ -us

vinous

1. obliqueness
2. (probability theory) skewness

• vuosin