flinty

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling or containing flint

   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. 2

   Siliceous (including basanite).

   • flinty rock
   • flinty slate
3. 3

   Showing a lack of emotion.

   • Public opinion has turned flintier in recent years on welfare spending.
   • While the texture of his playing was often flinty, his licks and leads were flush with feeling.
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   1. 4

      Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to…

      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.

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