PUNGENCY
\pˈʌnd͡ʒənsi], \pˈʌndʒənsi], \p_ˈʌ_n_dʒ_ə_n_s_i]\
Definitions of PUNGENCY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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having an acrid smell
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wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire"
By Princeton University
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The quality or state of being pungent or piercing; keenness; sharpness; piquancy; as, the pungency of ammonia.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Idiopathic Hypercatabolic Hypoproteinemias
- series of gastrointestinal disorders which share in common excessive loss protein, mainly albumin, across gut wall. occur stomach (Menetrier disease), as well the small bowel (intestinal lymphangiectases, assorted inflammatory states). They are also occasionally associated with congestive heart failure (again a bowel protein loss).