cankery

1. (of taste) Metallic or bitter.Examples: "Lastly, there was the 'cankery' taste of the mouth; the 'metallic' taste of the boy; the watery state of the mouth and lips in each; the teasing, hacking, dry cough, common to all, and affecting the children, particularly towards the last."; "He came from Sea in the Year 1727, or the Beginning of the Year 1728, after which he made a Visit or two to his Friends in Surry in one of which, his mother having prepar'd a Pot of Sage Tea for her own drinking; but the Father, unhappily for him (tho' he had hardly ever been known to drink Tea) took a large Draught of it, and the Moment after he had so done declar'd he was poison'd , the Taste thereof being nafty and cankery, and worse than any Mineral Water, or Water wherein old Iron had been steep'd for some Time;"; "Mercury or Podophyllin, as purgative for cankery taste unconnected with alcoholism;"