All 4 Uses
pungent
in
Seventeenth Summer
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- I broke off a bit of the tall spruce that grows beside our steps and smelled the pungent piny odor rising in the air.†
Chpt June *
- I turned over, shutting my eyes, trying to sleep, and on my fingers I could still smell the pungent spice of the spruce tree.†
Chpt June
- Why do I keep remembering the smell of pipe smoke that you can't even see, pungent in the night air, and that small, warm silence when someone is near you?†
Chpt June
- The air was full of the warm smell of buttered popcorn, the hot asphalt of the street stretched basking in the sun, and the pungent, exciting smell of firecrackers.†
Chpt July
Definitions:
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(1)
(pungent) strong smelling or tasting
or much more rarely: anything sharp, painful, or penetrating -- physically or emotionallyIn reference to taste or smell, pungent is more often associated with a strong flavor than a particular flavor. Some associate it with a high level of volatile acidity. Some wine connoisseurs interchange the word pungent with earthy. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)