PUNGENCY, PUNGENT, PUNGENTLY
ADJECTIVES
► ACUTE of tastes or odours: sharp, pungent → 1620 obs.
► EAGER pungent, acrid, keen to the taste or other senses → 1574 obs.
► FULSOME foul-smelling, rank; strong-smelling, pungent → 1576
► FUNKY having a strong or offensive smell; smelling of sweat; musky, pungent, rank → a1680
► PRICKED acid or pungent to the taste → 1701 US
► QUICK of a taste or smell: sharp, pungent, brisk → 1573 obs.
► RAMMISH of smell, taste, etc.: rank, rancid, acrid, pungent, strong, stinking, highly disagreeable → c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
ADVERBS
► EAGERLY sharply, pungently, keenly; violently, harshly, severely → 1377 obs.
NOUNS
► EAGERNESS pungency of taste; acidity, sourness → 1490 obs.
► QUICKNESS sharpness, keenness; pungency or acidity of taste; sharpness of speech → 1611 obs.
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