TASTE, TASTEFUL, TASTY
ADJECTIVES
– ACRIMONIOUS bitter and hot to the taste; bitterly pungent, irritating, corrosive; acrid …1612 arch.
– ACUTE of tastes or odours: sharp, pungent …1620 obs.
– BAACHIE nasty tasting; filthy …1930 Amer. dial.
– BAUCH unpleasant to the taste …1706 Sc.
– BEAUTIFUL pleasing to the taste …1886 Eng. dial.
– FABULICIOUS good; good-tasting; often used of a sexually appealing man …1997 US sl.
– GAMEY; GAMY having the flavour of game that has been kept till it is ‘high’; strong-tasting …1863
– GOBBITY pleasant to the taste …B1900 Eng. dial.
– GOODY toothsome, esp. sweet food, as butter, jelly, etc. …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– GUSTABLE that can be tasted; also, having a pleasant taste, appetizing …1480 rare
– GUSTATIVE having the function of tasting; concerned with tasting …1620
– GUSTATORIAL pert. to the sense of taste or tasting …1937
– GUSTATORY pert. to the sense of taste or tasting …1684
– HASK rough and hard to the touch or taste, esp. from the absence of moisture; coarse and dry …c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HASKY coarse to the taste; unpalatable …Bk1902 Sc.
– LUSTY pleasant to the taste …c1430 obs.
– MEEK-TASTED sweet or mild of taste …1897 Sc.
– MERVE savoury, agreeable to the taste …1899 Sc.
– MERVY savoury, agreeable to the taste …1899 Sc.
– NARSH disagreeable, harsh, or bitter in taste, rancid …1866 Sc.
– NESH delicate to the taste; in later use, tender, succulent, juicy …c888 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– NIRSE disagreeable, harsh, or bitter in taste, rancid …1866 Sc.
– PALATE pleasant to the palate or taste; palatable …1617 obs. rare
– PALATICAL pleasing to the palate or taste …1656 obs.
– PALATIVE pleasing to the palate or taste; palatable …1682 rare
– QUICK of a taste or smell: sharp, pungent, brisk …1573 obs.
– RAMMISH of smell, taste, etc.: rank, rancid, acrid, strong, stinking, highly disagreeable …c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RAMSH of edibles: rank or unpleasant to the palate, coarse; harsh to the taste; rank, foul; of alcohol: strong, fiery … 1808 Sc.
– RELISHY pleasant to the taste …1897 Eng. dial.
– SAPIENT having a taste or savour …1599 obs.
– SAPORAL pert. to taste …1651 obs. rare
– SAPORIFIC imparting flavour or taste …1704 rare
– SAPORINE pert. to the sense of taste …1813 rare
– SAPOROUS agreeable to the taste, savoury …a1670 obs.
– SAPOROUS pert. to taste; having flavour or taste …1704
– TART of the sense of taste: keen …1605 obs. rare
– TASTESOME pleasant to the taste; toothsome…1598 obs. rare
– TOOTH-RIFE agreeable to the taste; palatable; that of which one can eat a considerable quantity …1841 Sc.
– VALIANT strong in respect of smell or taste …1607 obs.
– VEHEMENT of taste: strong, pungent …1600 obs.
– VELVETY smooth and soft to the taste …1888
– VINY old or high tasted; generally applied to game that has been overkept …1887 Sc.
– WALLOW nauseous; having a sickly taste …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WALLOW-LIKE nauseous; having a sickly taste …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WALLOWY nauseous; having a sickly taste …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– WALSH insipid, tasteless, ill-tasting; having a sickly taste, nauseous …1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– WELSH nauseous; sour; having a sickly taste …1691 Eng. dial.
– YAR harsh of taste; sour …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YARRISH harsh or strong of taste; acid, sour …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– YARRY harsh or strong of taste; acid, sour …1841 Eng. dial.
– GUSTFUL full of ‘gust’ or flavour; pleasant to the taste, tasty …1647 obs.
– GUSTY tasty, savoury, appetizing …1721 Sc.
– LICIOUS delicious, tasty, savoury …c1420 obs. rare
– MOREISH of food: appetizing, tasty …1905 Amer. dial.
– MOREY of food: appetizing, tasty …1975 Amer. dial.
– MORISH of food: appetizing, tasty …1905 Amer. dial.
– NEAT of preparations, esp. in cookery: dainty, tasteful …1611
– NOSHABLE suitable for noshing; tasty, delicious …1966 colloq.
– SCRUMPTIOUS delicious, extra-tasty…1881 sl., orig. US
– SIPID savoury; tasty; full of flavour …1623 rare
ADVERBS
– FALSE-TASTEDLY with a false or bad taste …1803 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
– ACERBITUDE sourness, harshness in taste, bitterness …1731 obs.
– ACERBITY sourness of taste, mingled with bitterness or astringency; harshness, roughness of taste; …1611
– ACRIMONY biting sharpness to the taste; pungency; acridity …1542 arch.
– ACRITUDE bitterness, sharpness or pungency of taste; acridity …1675 obs. rare
– ANTEPAST a foretaste; an appetizer …1580
– FAINTNESS a sickly taste; excessive sweetness …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FANG a twang, an ill taste or flavour …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FAREWELL an aftertaste …1905 Amer. dial.
– GAB palate, taste …1725 Sc.
– GABBETS the palate, taste, appetite …1874 Sc.
– GOOD-BYE TASTE aftertaste …Bk1913-1917 Amer. dial.
– GUST the sense or faculty of taste …c1430 arch.
– GUSTATION the act of tasting; taste …1599
– GUSTATIVENESS taste …1827
– NADKIN; NATKIN a strong, unpleasant odour or taste; the taint acquired by meat kept too long …1825 Sc. obs.
– NAG a sour, mouldy, or stale taste …1908 Sc.
– NIRR an unpleasant taste in food …1929 Sc.
– NISS a harsh, bitter, or strong taste …1908 Sc.
– SAPIDITY the quality of having taste and flavour …1646
– SAPIDNESS the quality of having taste and flavour …1649 obs.
– SAPOR, SAPOUR a taste, savour, flavour; the taste of a substance, esp. of food or drink …1477
– SAPOROSITY that property of a body by which it imparts the sensation of taste; taste, flavour …1794 RARE
– SAY a sample; a taste …1813 Eng. dial.
– SCHMECK a taste or flavour …Brit. sl.
– SHMECK a taste or flavour …Brit. sl.
– SMAHAN a drop to drink; a taste …E20 Irish
– TACHE a slight taste or flavour; a smack …1607 obs. rare
– TACK a smack, taste, or flavour of something; esp. a peculiar or ill flavour …1602 obs.
– TALLAGE taste, savour …a1400 obs.
– TALLAGE the sense of taste …1557 obs.
– TARAGE taste, flavour …c1407 obs.
– TARRAGE taste, flavour …c1407 obs.
– TEUK; TUIK a disagreeable taste, a by-taste …1899 Sc.
– TEW a bad taste, esp. that occasioned by dampness …BK1905 Sc.
– TINT a taste, touch; a foretaste; a scrap; a very small quantity …1878 Sc.
– VERDURE sharpness, tartness, or unpleasantness of taste …1508 obs.
– VERDURE freshness or agreeable briskness of taste in fruits or liquors; also, taste, savour …1513 obs.
– WAFT a taste or flavour, esp. an ill taste …1542 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WAYGANG a lingering taste or flavour, an aftertaste …1754 Sc.
NOUNS, PERSON
– GUSTER a professional or official taster …1609 Sc. obs.
– TASTER a domestic officer whose duty it is to taste food and drink about to be served to his master, in order to ascertain their quality, or to detect poison …1387
– TASTER one who tastes or tries the quality of a thing by tasting; one whose office, business, or employment is to taste the quality of victuals sold to the public, as ale, wine, tea, etc. by taste …c1440
VERBS
– ABITE to bite, to nip, to taste …c1000 obs.
– AIR to taste …Bk1898 Sc.
– DELIBATE to take a little of; to taste, to sip …1623 obs.
– FAND to taste food, etc. …c893 obs.
– FOND to taste food, etc. …c893 obs.
– GUST to taste; to relish …c1430 Sc.
– GUST THE GAB to give a taste or relish to …1773 Sc.
– HANDSEL; HANSEL to use for the first time; to be the first to test, try, prove, taste …1605
– MAKE ONE’S TONGUE SLAP ONE IN THE FOREHEAD of food: to taste good …2008 Amer. dial.
– MAKE ONE’S TONGUE SLAP ONE’S BRAIN of food: to taste good …2003 Amer. dial.
– MAKE ONE’S TONGUE SLAP ONE’S JAW TEETH OUT of food: to taste good …1986 Amer. dial.
– MAKE ONE’S TONGUE SLAP ONE’S TONSILS of food: to taste good …2009 Amer. dial.
– MAKE ONE’S TONGUE SLAP THE ROOF OF ONE’S MOUTH of food: to taste good …1967 Amer. dial.
– MISTASTE to spoil the taste of; to have no taste for …1613 obs.
– QUALIFY to modify the quality or strength of, to make stronger, dilute or otherwise fit for taste; as, to ‘qualify’ liquors …1816 Amer. dial.
– REHEARSE to leave a strong taste in the mouth; to rise on the stomach, as of food which disagrees …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SAY to assay, to test; to taste …1724 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TACK to give a smack or taste to ..1868 Eng. dial.
– TARAGE to have a taste; to have a flavour …c1407 obs.
– TASTE LIKE MORE to taste very good, making one eager to have more …1869 Amer. dial.
– TASTE LIKE MORE’S BEHIND to taste very good, making one eager to have more …1869 Amer. dial.
– TASTE ONE’S MOUTH to please one’s sense of taste …1909 Amer. dial.