flintyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈflɪnti/
• 韻: -ɪnti

形容詞

flinty (comparative flintier or more flinty, superlative flintiest or most flinty)

1. Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
   • 1973, Patsy Adam Smith, The Barcoo Salute, Adelaide: Rigby, page 2:

     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. (geology) Siliceous (including basanite).

   flinty rock

   flinty slate

3. (figuratively) Showing a lack of emotion.
   • 2012 August 22, Andy Beckett, “Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 26 April 2022:

     Public opinion has turned flintier in recent years on welfare spending.

   • 2023 August 9, “Robbie Robertson, 80, Dies; Canadian Songwriter Captured American Spirit”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 31 August 2023:

     While the texture of his playing was often flinty, his licks and leads were flush with feeling.

4. (wine) Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
   • 2023 March 24, Laura Reiley, “Could nonalcoholic wine be the toast of the town?”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 15 May 2023:

     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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