pungent [ˈpʌndʒənt] ?
adjective
[+smell, flavour] acre; [+remark, style] mordaz the pungent odor of cordite salt air pungent with pine needles and wood smoke he filled his lungs with the pungent afternoon air The bathroom proved to be pungent with disinfectant, but surprisingly clean they smoked pungent Russian cigarettes the pungent smell of stale sweat/burning rubber you find the strong pungent sauces and soups reeking with garlic and saffron he saw the film as a pungent way of telling the president how he should handle things Reviewing a collection of young British poets in 1971, he sums them up with pungent simplicity: "Lack of finish, lack of art - the oldest fault in the world" It's a pungent, funny book
