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casky en · ADJ

Etymology

From cask + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a cask.
   • […] a rancid flavor, or one of rubber, plastic material, hydrocarbons, or a casky taste. 1996, Emile Peynaud, Jacques Blouin, The Taste of Wine: The Art Science of Wine Appreciation, page 287:
   • Alexander Montgomery, Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago […] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.

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