The word 'pungent' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe things that have a strong odour or taste. For example: The pungent aroma of garlic filled the kitchen.
"Even your boss, strait-laced, hatchet-faced Mr George Lowery, why even he can smell the rancid, pungent scent of sex all over you," he barks at her during one scene.
We try algarroba-flour cookies which are mildly dry with a pungent carob flavour, and chenar fruits, mixed with honey and served with puffed quinoa.
"I love cooking with the delicate flavours and perfumes of Chinese cuisine," she says, "though I really avoid the pungent fermented ones".
A skirt of woodland suffused with the pungent perfume of flowering hawthorn and rowan gives way to a huge sweep of bluebells on the open hillside, incandescent as flaming brandy.
Even then, since all the spectacular pomp of the funeral seemed designed to propagate the Thatcher myth, I was reminded of an even more pungent phrase from Eliot's Four Quartets: "human kind cannot bear very much reality".
The best part of the fair is walking through the livestock barns soaking up the sights, the (pungent) smells, and the excitement of the occasional pig making a dash for freedom.Such fairs, of course, are not an American invention: they have evolved from the medieval fairs of Europe.
Here's a good example of the sort of thing that is recounted in pungent detail in private conversation, but can appear in print only with the details stripped out.
Fiddling contests are held and a mariachi band enlivens the popular Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza.Apart from a pungent smell every January, the fair generates $80m for the local economy.
Many of his most pungent novels were set there and drew their titles from it: "Zuqaq al Midaq" (Midaq Alley), "Al Sukkariya" (Sugar Street).
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It used to be joked that the main qualifications for attendance at its ministerial bashes were the ability to speak English, and a fondness for golf, karaoke and durian, a pungent fruit.The easy-going bonhomie has helped unite ten very diverse countries.
