flinty

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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. sıfat Siliceous (including basanite).

   “flinty rock”

3. sıfat Showing a lack of emotion.

   “Public opinion has turned flintier in recent years on welfare spending.”

4. sıfat 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.”