1. Wit having a sharp and caustic quality
   "he commented with typical pungency"
   - bite 
2. A strong odour or taste property
   "the pungency of mustard"
   - bite, sharpness, raciness

Derived forms: pungencies

See also: pungent

Type of: drollness, humor [US], humour [Brit, Cdn], spice, spicery, spiciness, wit, witticism, wittiness

Encyclopedia: Pungency

• Dictyoptera
• dictyopteran
• dictyopterous insect
• dictyosome
• dicumarol
• dicynodont
• Dicynodontia
• didactic
• didactical
• didactically
• didacticism
• didactics
• didanosine
• didder
• diddle
• diddler
• diddley
• diddly
• diddlyshit
• diddlysquat
• diddums
• Didelphidae
• Didelphis
• Didelphis marsupialis
• Didelphis virginiana