gassinessn.

1869 London Society Feb. 187/1 There is a ‘gassiness’ about all Mr. Craven's woodland scenes which, to my thinking, impairs their artistic beauty.

1870 G. Fowler Coal Mining ix. 50 Is there not some reason to think that, after all, the relative ‘gassiness’ of different seams is very much the effect of the way in which they are worked?

1883 M. Collins H. Modjeska iii. 46 The theatre. Its stuffiness, its gassiness, all the abominations common to such buildings.

1909 H. W. Conn Agric. Bacteriol. (ed. 2) xiv. 202 Different strains and different quantities of bacteria will produce grades of gasiness in cheeses.

1946 Musical Times 87 239/1 Tippett's concerto for double string orchestra: first movement too typically English in its gassiness: much ado about little.

1965 M. A. Amerine & V. L. Singleton Wine vi. 80 A number of Swiss wines are evidently bottled with enough added carbon dioxide to give them a slight gassiness.

2008 D. Hoyer Mayan Cuisine 94 The gassiness associated with bean consumption.