Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Composed of, pertaining to, or resembling grapes: as, a grapy flavor.
Wiktionary
- adj. Composed of, or resembling, grapes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Composed of, or resembling, grapes.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a taste like that of grapes
Etymologies
- grape + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As vivid gouts of Dago Red saturated a nearby snowbank, turning it a deep, grapy purple, a cameraman from Pathé News gave a local man called “Necktie” Sensiba fifty cents to drop to his knees and eat the snow.”
“It is a hardy variety with some bunch-rot disease resistance, but can easily result in foxy, grapy flavors if not picked early enough.”
“And when Brookie lets the poor thing loose, it galumphs to the mirror and backs up to see its grapy leg.”
“Although it remains unevolved and somewhat grapy, everything is present for a fabulous evolution of two decades or more.”
“While still young and grapy, this 1998 is loaded with potential.”
“Small estates prefer to do malolactic in barrel because they believe it integrates the wood better and gives the wine a more forward sweetness early in life, making the young, grapy wine more appealing to wine journalists/critics who descend on Bordeaux every spring to taste the newest vintage.”
“The 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve was grapy, un-evolved, and primary when I tasted it.”
“The huge, opaque 1983 Unico Reserva is fat and grapy, with massive flavor concentration; an expansive, sweet, jammy, black currant fruitiness; spicy oak; and a long, robust, spicy finish.”
“Displaying the darker aromas and flavors typical for a Claude Dugat Charmes-Chambertin, the 2000 offers plummy black-berry scents as well as a grapy, black cherry–dominated personality.”
“Delicious since age five to six, it remains a husky, forceful, grapy, exuberant wine with gobs of cassis fruit presented in an unctuously textured, thick, succulent style.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘grapy’.
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Grapes
sour grapes, grape, grapes, raisin, Nehi grape soda, Petit Verdot, Concord, Pinot Meunier, scuppernong, muscadine, Catawba, seedless and 112 more...
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On The Road
Words gathered while reading On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
jailkid, lovething, worklife, longbody, benny, lout, dingledody, intellectualness, huaraches, twink, pisscall, buddhistic and 109 more...
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