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Grammar : Adj
Spell : puhn-juhnt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpʌn dʒənt

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Définition of pungent

Origin :
  • 1590s, "sharp, poignant" (of pain or grief), from Latin pungentem (nominative pungens), present participle of pungere "to prick, pierce, sting," figuratively, "to vex, grieve, trouble, afflict," related to pugnus "fist" (see pugnacious). Meaning "having powerful odor or taste" first recorded 1660s. Literal sense "sharp, pointed" (c.1600) is very rare in English, mostly limited to botany. Middle English and early Modern English also had a now-obsolete verb punge "to prick, pierce; to smart, cause to sting," from Latin pungere. Related: Pungently.
  • adj highly flavored
  • adj sharp, stinging in speech
Example sentences :
  • This conduct bespeaks the most pungent and unaffected sorrow.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • It burns like oil, is of a pungent scent, and a blackish color.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 » by Various
  • The insipid odour of the meat, the pungent smell of the tripe exasperated him.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • In all plants which I have found the odor is somewhat strong and the taste is pungent.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • The air was thick with the odor of raw blood and pungent with ozone.
  • Extract from : « The Martian Cabal » by Roman Frederick Starzl
  • It was pungent but delightful, and the stranger remarked upon it.
  • Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • He roused to the sound of heavy firing and the pungent odour of powder.
  • Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • Smoke before the men, thick, pungent, told a tale to which they were used.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • Is not the book of Proverbs full of grave, dry, pungent humour?
  • Extract from : « The Biglow Papers » by James Russell Lowell
  • He fell suddenly into the violent, pungent speech of the mule-skinner.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine

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