winy

adj

Etymology: From Middle English wyny; equivalent to wine + -y.

1. Having the taste or qualities of wine.

   “grapes of a winy taste”

   “1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, V. Century, p. 125, Take Cucumbers, or Pumpions, and set them (here and there) amongst Muske-Melons, and see whether the Melons will not be more Winy, and better tasted.”

2. Relating to the effects of drinking wine; especially, winedrunk.

   “It was late on the morning following our last chapter, ere he thought he had got rid of as much of his winy headache as fitful sleep would carry off, and enveloped himself in a blue and yellow-flowered silk dressing-gown and Turkish slippers.”

   “[…] our banquet was turned by him to a battle and our winey mirths to bloody rages.”