wino
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
wine + -o (“person with characteristic”).
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Noun edit
- (derogatory) A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 43:
- My grandmother was a Puerto Rican wino from Spanish Harlem named Migdalia, but everybody called her Mimi. My moms and Aunt Dru were her only kids. Mimi was a tall, light-skinned woman with long wavy hair and high cheekbones. She drank cheap wine and laughed all day long.
- 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 782:
- I came out in an alley where a couple of winos were picking through a trash bin.
- (informal) A wine enthusiast; an oenophile.
Synonyms edit
- (indigent): See also Thesaurus:vagabond
- (drunk or drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
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alcoholic (pejorative)
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Etymology 2 edit
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wino (plural winos)
- (physics) A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.
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Further reading edit
- Wino (slang term) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Wino (particle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Lower Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *vino, borrowed from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.
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Noun edit
wino n inan
- wine (alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of grapes)
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Polish edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Polish wino, from Proto-Slavic *vino, borrowed from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.
Noun edit
wino n
- wine
- wino słodkie ― sweet wine
- wino półsłodkie ― medium wine
- wino półwytrawne ― medium dry wine
- wino wytrawne ― dry wine
- wino białe ― white wine
- wino czerwone ― red wine
- wino różowe ― rosé
Declension edit
Declension of wino
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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wino f
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
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wino (u class, no plural)
- ink (coloured fluid used for writing)