What is "tangy"

Usage examples of "tangy".

He left his home in Tangier in 1325 aiming, in the first instance, to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.

It was ample, and served alfresco on the shady side of the main house while the morning air still tasted tangy.

The emotional perfume was delicious, spiced by the fresh, tangy aroma of cilantro and sharpness of onion and garlic coming from the open kitchen window below him.

Mills bomb turns out to be luscious pepsin-flavored nougat, chock-full of tangy candied cubeb berries, and a chewy camphor-gum center.

When she returned to her room, she could think of nothing but Dagon and the way she had felt at home in his arms and the taste of his lips so sharp and tangy and full of passion.

He could smell the woodsmoke from the Alengwyneh towns, and other familiar and disgusting odors: the body wastes, the sour, pulpy smell of garbage rotting outside their villages, the tangy stink of their tanneries, the rankling smell of their lime kilns and charcoal pits and the retting vats where they soaked flax and dogbane and heart-tree bark to make cloth fiber.

Jon held a picnic basket that was probably overflowing with fried chicuck, greasy goober chips, cooakes, pies, and magically cold, tangy oranglemime aid.

Thick privet hedges wafted their tangy scent, and nearly every front garden in Arcadia Avenue had one of those sugar-pink lavatera things trumpeting into the sky.

Tammy was probably asking herself that very question, sitting in orbital detention light years from Eugene, while Derek drank warm tangy saki with a semi-nude mammalogist curled in his lap.

I was telling Neddy about a Tangier concert whereat he introduced his cardiac arrest hoedown number.

The wurst was tangy and succulent, and the kraut, served with applesauce, had a zest of its own.

The sea-freshened air brought with it the fragrance of jasmine which bloomed alongside the veranda, mingled with the tantalizing aroma of hot, glazed meats, bread, brewed coffee, and tangy fresh fruits that graced the table for the morning meal and presented to Captain Beauchamp as he paused in the doorway a most heavenly scent after long months of sea fare.

A hot tangy undernote of dust rose from the soon-to-be-baking surface of the plaza.

Israel that as Ameen of Tangier he had doubled the custom revenues in half a year, invited him to fill an informal, unofficial, and irregular position as assessor of tributes.

But he provided himself with a stash of apomorphine so escaped and contacted our Tangier agent.