"alcoholy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From alcohol + -y.",
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      "form": "more alcoholy",
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          "ref": "1936 June 18, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 88, number 287, St. Louis, Mo., page 5B:",
          "text": "This distilled dry gin is smooth and potent, without excess flavoring or alcoholy taste.",
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          "ref": "1958, David A[ugustus] Embury, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, 3rd American edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Dolphin Books, published 1961, →ISBN, page 49:",
          "text": "But if you like a whisky that is full-bodied, mature, rich in character, and entirely free from what I call an “alcoholy” taste, you will prefer American bonded whisky, as do I.",
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          "ref": "(Can we date this quote?), Harper’s Bazaar, numbers 3578–3580, page 90:",
          "text": "It’s either more concentrated and will be more strong or will have an alcoholy smell that won’t last.",
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        {
          "ref": "1995, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, page 241, column 1:",
          "text": "I opened my eyes to bright strip lights and that alcoholy smell which spells infirmary.",
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          "ref": "1997 July 17, Diane Toroian, “The Chill Seekers”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, page 26:",
          "text": "Like many summer cocktails, the alcohol here is almost indiscernible. According to [Rob] Winkler, that’s the point: “These drinks are so soothing and taste so good, but there isn’t that strong alcohol-y taste.”",
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          "ref": "2010, Joseph Mackin, Pretend All Your Life, Sag Harbor, N.Y.: The Permanent Press, →ISBN, page 49:",
          "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, →ISBN:",
          "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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        "Resembling or characteristic of alcohol."
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        "(rare) Resembling or characteristic of alcohol."
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  "etymology_text": "From alcohol + -y.",
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          "text": "I opened my eyes to bright strip lights and that alcoholy smell which spells infirmary.",
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