It is unclear if the two "flavor" senses of foxy are related, but the origin of foxiness in wine stems from the fox grape, a sour grape native to eastern North America that presumably is named for its characteristic musky odor with which people have compared to a fox’s. Wine too can taste foxy, meaning it tastes briskly pungent. Pamela Sambrook, Country House Brewing in England, 1500-1900, 1996 whilst drawing off the wort from the mash tun. To avoid producing 'foxy' beer, with a tainted taste caused by acidity, the cautious brewer adopted the practice of rubbing a small proportion of the hops to be used with a small amount of salt, and tying them in a bag to soak. Women who tell racy stories … can rouse a great deal of enthusiasm in a room full of men.ĭoes your beer taste foxy? Foxy has been used to describe beer turned sour during fermentation since the 19th century. That sense evolved in the late 19th century into the familiar use of the word for things risqué or suggestive. Racy also came to specify things having a characteristic vigor, liveliness, or piquancy, such as a piece of writing, a speech, or a performance. Fintan O'Toole, The Irish Times, 24 June 2017 It is native to the Gael and racy of the soil. Wyssn is short, of course, for Whatever You Say Say Nothing. Paddy Woodworth, The Irish Times, 30 Apr. And most of our current habitats and wildlife regulation originated in Brussels. On the other hand most 19th- and early-20th-century naturalists and conservationists in Ireland came predominantly from among the Anglo-Irish, and were not exactly racy of the soil. Racy of the soil has not yet been tucked away in the annals of history it is still occasionally evoked, particularly by the Irish. This sense of the word was often used in the expression "racy of the soil." In the 1840s, the expression was popularized in Ireland when the Irish nationalist newspaper The Nation adopted it as a motto to indicate its distinct Irishness. Hartley Coleridge, "Young and His Contemporaries," circa 1849 Scots were they both by temper as by birth, And both were racy of their native earth. For instance, an apple might be said to be "rich with racy juice."įrom the notion that the soil gives the grapes used in racy wines their distinctive qualities, racy began being used to describe people or things characteristic of their birthplace or place of origin. In time, racy came to describe other juices having a pure, natural flavor. Some curious Pallates have called it Vin Greco, rich and racy Canary, not knowing what name to give it, for its excellency. In the 17th century, the adjective racy was uncorked to describe such a wine having a taste indicative of the origin and natural characteristics of its grapes. Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, 1633 Giovanni Botero, Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-wealths, 1630Ī pipe Of rich Canarie … Is it of the right race? The golden Mountaine … which beares a wine of a more delicate and rich race than the Canaries, and inestimable plenty too. In the 16th century, race not only referred to a group of people, animals, or plants having a common ancestry but to a particular class of wine with a characteristic flavor supposedly influenced by the soil in which the grapes used in making it grew.
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