Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Drunkenness; wine-bibbing.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete drunkenness
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Drunkennes.
Etymologies
- Latin vinolentina. See vinolent. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vinolency’.
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2008 more...
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Words to use at the Joynt
obstreperous, calibogus, ouzo, pitcher-man, arfarfanarf, drunkensides, pyrogenesis, amphiboly, gobemouche, cacoethes, slubberdegullion, diplopic and 107 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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October list
dilatory, dearth, adroit, aserine, brusque, panacea, tractable, atrophy, goad, quotidiam, haughty, vinolency and 6 more...
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new words
words i would like to remember
revenant, puerile, peregrination, divaricate, oaves, superannuated, macrography, antipudic, fetichistic, hicon, nugatory, jejune and 19 more...
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Fun
Fun meanings
Tweets
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reesetee It's one of the reasons I like the word. :-) Oct 2, 2007
halcyonwhimsy You can see the greek/latin origin here with "vino" being prominent. :) Oct 2, 2007
reesetee (obsolete) Drunkenness. Oct 1, 2007