Definitions

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  • noun A variety of grape grown in eastern Hungary and in eastern Slovakia.
  • noun A variety of white wines made from this grape.

Etymologies

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From Hungarian tokaji ("of Tokay"), from Tokaj (placename) + -i ("originating from").

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Examples

  • I am not sure I have ever used the word "tokay," not have I ever really seen it used except in that Philip Pullman book -- The Golden Compass, where it's what the evil Lord Asriel is drinking.

    readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2005

  • Also, I had a patron Tokay gecko (brightly colored, made a loud "tokay" sound, very sharp teeth and about a foot long) or two that lived in my bungalow and hunted them.

    Stories from The Sun 2010

  • Also, I had a patron Tokay gecko (brightly colored, made a loud "tokay" sound, very sharp teeth and about a foot long) or two that lived in my bungalow and hunted them.

    Stories from The Sun 2010

  • Also, I had a patron Tokay gecko (brightly colored, made a loud "tokay" sound, very sharp teeth and about a foot long) or two that lived in my bungalow and hunted them.

    Stories from The Sun Nikhita Parandekar 2010

  • Also, I had a patron Tokay gecko (brightly colored, made a loud "tokay" sound, very sharp teeth and about a foot long) or two that lived in my bungalow and hunted them.

    Stories from The Sun Nikhita Parandekar 2010

  • Then he stuck his hand in a brown sack at his side and twisted the cap off a bottle of tokay and took a long swig.

    The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 19 2010

  • Try and learn the difference between port, muscat and tokay by having one glass of each.

    Christmas at the Wilkinson House lili 2007

  • If you had been looking for words in a liqueur tokay, I might not.

    gillpolack: I have worked so hard today that words j gillpolack 2009

  • Try and learn the difference between port, muscat and tokay by having one glass of each.

    Archive 2007-12-01 lili 2007

  • Answer these questions correctly to Win a year's supply of fine wine via Independent Online 1. The sweet wine tokay is from which country?

    Think You Know Wine? The Nag 2007

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