Reverse Dictionary: FOOD – ADJECTIVES

ADJECTIVES
► ABSTEMIOUS of food, a meal, etc.: spare, plain, modest → 1604
► ALL HOLIDAY AT PECKHAM lacking in food → L18 sl.
► BACK-HET of food: twice heated or cooked → 1911 Sc. obs.
► BAITLESS without food, without refreshment → 1600
► BATHY of food: moist, sodden → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BEARING of food: sustaining, substantial → c1618 obs.
► BENIGN of food: easily digested → 1651 obs.
► BLITZ of food, esp. pastry: easy or quick to prepare → 1946 Amer. dial.
► BOILED TO RAGS of food: very much overdone → 19C Eng. dial.
► BUNCOMBE excellent, first-rate, esp. of food → 1859 Amer. dial.
► BUNK excellent, first-rate, esp. of food → 1941 Amer. dial.
► BUNKUM excellent, fine, first-rate, esp. of food → 1834 Amer. dial.
► BUNKUMSQUINT fine, excellent, first-rate, esp. of food → 1911 Amer. dial.
► CAPERONISH good, excellent; often applied to edibles → 1825 Sc.
► CAUTCH of food: underdone → 1895 Amer. dial.
► CIBARIOUS relating to food, useful for food, edible → 1656
► COLLAR AND ELBOW ► COLLAR AND SHOULDER of an eating establishment or manner of serving food: family style, informal; placed on the table, where each person serves himself → 1926 Amer. dial.
► COMFORTATIVE strengthening, reviving, as medicine, food, etc. → 1398 obs.
► CREMATED said of the effect of an overhot oven on a piece of meat → Brit. sl.
► CRUDE of food: raw, uncooked → 1542 obs.
► ELEGANT of food and drink: excellent, first-rate → 1848
► ENOUGH of food: cooked sufficiently → 1854 Eng. dial.
► ESCULENT suitable for food, eatable → 1626
► FAKEY out of condition; of food: inferior, bad; putrid, rotten → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FINE-PALATED appreciative of fine food and drink → 1930
► FITTIN’ of foods: pleasing → 1906 Amer. dial.
► FLAT-FOOTED of food: plain, without further preparation or admixture → 1952 Amer. dial.
► FRIAND dainty; delicious to the palate; fond of delicate food → 1599 obs.
► FULSOME of food: heavy, filling; difficult to digest → 1555
► FUNKY of food or drink: having a rich, intense, or overripe smell or flavour; also, rancid, mouldy → 1747
► GAUDY of fare: luxurious → 1540 obs.
► GORGEOUS of food: rich, cloying → 1950 Amer. dial.
► HEARTLESS of food or drink; without stimulating or sustaining power → 1657
► ICKY of food: sticky, sweet, unpleasant → 1929 US sl., chiefly teen usage
► ICKY-BOO ► ICKY-POO of food: sticky, sweet, unpleasant → 1920s US sl., chiefly teen usage
► ILL-SAIRED not having sufficient food → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► KOSHER right, good; applied to meat and other food prepared according to the Jewish law → 1851
► LAPPING GOOD of food: exceptionally good → 1965 Amer. dial.
► LARRUPING very good, excellent; esp. used of food → 1900s US sl.
► LASH of food, fruit, grass, etc.: soft, watery → c1440
► LECHEROUS of food: rich, dainty → 1474 obs.
► LICKERISH fond of and eager for choice food → arch.
► LICKING GOOD of food: very good; highly palatable → 1893 Amer. dial.
► LIQUORISH fond of and eager for choice food → arch.
► MALMY of food generally: vapid, tasteless → 1843 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MEAT-RIFE abounding with food → 1802 Sc.
► MESSY of food: unpalatable, soft, pulpy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NAUGHTY of articles of food or drink: of bad quality, in bad condition → 1535
► NEAR of food: underdone in cooking → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NIFFY of food: rotten, ‘off’ → 1920 sl.
► OMNIVORANT devouring or eating all kinds of food → 1852
► OMNIVOROUS devouring or eating all kinds of food → 1656
► ONKUS of food or drink: inferior, of poor quality → 1941 Aust. sl.
► PABULOUS of the nature of food; abounding in or affording food or aliment → 1646 obs.
► PRIME of food or other goods: of the best or highest quality, first class, excellent → 1402
► RAFTY of edibles: rancid, tainted → 19C Eng. dial.
► RASPED of cooked food: overdone → 1876 Eng. dial.
► SAM half or imperfectly done; half-heated; esp. used of food → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAM-SODDLING of food: overcooked → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAM-ZAWEY of food: lukewarm; neither hot nor cold → 1891 Eng. dial.
► SAM-ZOAKY of food: sodden → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAM-ZRUDDLED of food: boiled to rags → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAPID of food: having a pleasant taste, savoury, palatable → 1646
► SCRUM of food: enjoyable, delicious → L19 sl.
► SHEER of food: thin, not containing much substance → 1632 obs.
► SITOPHOBIC having a morbid aversion to food or eating → 1891
► SIX FEET UP A BULL’S ASS rich: said of food → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
► SKRUM of food: enjoyable, delicious → L19 sl.
► SLIDDERY of food: loose and flaccid; easily eaten → 1889 Sc.
► SPRIGHTLY of food or flavour: piquant, tangy; fresh-tasting → 1817
► STODGY of food: heavy or uninteresting
► STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK of food or drink, esp. coffee: very strong-flavoured → 1965 Amer. dial.
► STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK ALONE of food or drink, esp. coffee: very strong-flavoured → 1861 Amer. dial.
► STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK BY ITSELF of food or drink, esp. coffee: very strong-flavoured → 1965 Amer. dial.
► STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK OFF of food or drink, esp. coffee: very strong-flavoured → 1965 Amer. dial.
► STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK ON of food or drink, esp. coffee: very strong-flavoured → 1965 Amer. dial.
► STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK ON ITS HANDS of food or drink, esp. coffee: very strong-flavoured → 1915 Amer. dial.
► STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK OUT OF THE CUP of food or drink, esp. coffee: very strong-flavoured → 1965 Amer. dial.
► STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK OUT OF THE POT of food or drink, esp. coffee: very strong-flavoured → 1965 Amer. dial.
► STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK UP A HILL BACKWARDS of food or drink, esp. coffee: very strong-flavoured → 1965 Amer. dial.
► STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK UP HILL of food or drink, esp. coffee: very strong-flavoured → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SUBTLE of food: delicate, light → a1400 obs.
► TAD-LARRUPING very good, excellent; esp. used of food → 1900s US sl.
► TAKIE of food: lasting → 1825 Sc. obs.
► WABBLIE of liquid food or drink: wishy-washy, thin → 1949 Sc.
► WAIRSH squeamish; feeling a desire for dainty food; having a griping in the bowels → 1804 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WOULD KILL A BROWN DOG of food: dreadful, disgusting, inedible → 1966 Aust. sl.
► WOULDN’T FEED IT TO A JAP ON ANZAC DAY (racist) of food: absolutely disgusting → Aust. sl.