different between unstirred vs flinty

English

un- +? stirred

unstirred (comparative more unstirred, superlative most unstirred)

That has not been mixed by stirring.
Not stirred or emotionally excited.
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
  Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks.

From flint +? -y.

flinty (comparative flintier or more flinty, superlative flintiest or most flinty)

Resembling or containing flint.
(geology) Siliceous (including basanite).
flinty rock; flinty slate
Showing a lack of emotion.
Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.

flinty f

inflection of flinta:
1. genitive singular
2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

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