Peaty vs Praty - What's the difference?
peaty | praty |
Of or resembling peat, especially the taste or smell.
* 2004 , Matthew Teller (editor), The Rough Guide to Britain ,
* 2009 , Jason Kawall, 17: Whisky and the Wild: On Preserving Methods and Distilleries'', Fritz Allhoff, Marcus P. Adams (editors), ''Whiskey and Philosophy: A Small Batch of Spirited Ideas ,
* 2014 , John E. Conway, Buckrammer's Tales: The Continuing Catboat Summers Adventures ,
Containing peat.
* 1977 , Derek A. Ratcliffe (editor), A Nature Conservation Review , Volume 2,
* 2004 , Patrick J. Michaels, Meltdown , 2005,
* 2013 , Ronald Turnbull, Walking Highland Perthshire ,
As an adjective peaty
is of or resembling peat, especially the taste or smell.As a noun praty is
(dated|irish) potato.peaty
English
Adjective
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- The ten-year-old Ardbeg is traditionally considered the saltiest, peatiest malt on Islay (and that's saying something).
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- Many are eagerly anticipating Bruichladdich's Octomore line—intended to be the peatiest whisky from Islay (with a peating level of 129 phenol ppm in the malt in 2003).
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- After dinner, Ned revealed that he had snuck aboard a bottle of Ardbeg Uigeadail, one of the smokiest, peatiest , single malt Scotches this side of Edinburgh; a spirit “as deep and mysterious as the loch that gives it its name" and one that smacks of distilled pine tar.
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- The Drumochter Hills are a breeding haunt of dotterel, ptarmigan occur at high density, and where the ground is peatier , especially east of the Pass, golden plover and dunlin breed in company with these other birds at around 900 m.
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- The Palmer Drought Severity Index for Minnesota, our peatiest state, shows a tendency for wetter, not drier conditions.
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- Ben Feskineth lay undiscovered in deepest, peatiest Perthshire.
