"alcoholy" meaning in All languages combined

See alcoholy on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more alcoholy [comparative], most alcoholy [superlative]
Etymology: From alcohol + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|alcohol|y}} alcohol + -y Head templates: {{en-adj}} alcoholy (comparative more alcoholy, superlative most alcoholy)
  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of alcohol. Tags: rare Synonyms: alcoholly
    Sense id: en-alcoholy-en-adj-unbogua9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y

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          "ref": "1995, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, page 241, column 1",
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          "text": "“You smell like my father,” she said, waving her hand in front of her nose. Still, she smiled. / “What’s that supposed to mean?” / “The alcohol,” she answered. “That sweet alcoholy smell in the afternoon.[…]”",
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          "ref": "2020, David Poyer, Violent Peace: The War with China — Aftermath of Armageddon, St. Martin’s Press",
          "text": "At last he focuses on the dark face over his. A black woman, in the blue dim. A strange alcoholy smell about her.",
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