TASTELESS, TASTELESSNESS
ADJECTIVES
– DADDOCKY inferior, weak; tasteless …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– FADE that has lost taste; insipid, commonplace, uninteresting …1715 obs.
– FATUOUS tasteless, insipid, vapid …1608 obs.
– GUSTLESS tasteless, insipid …1636 obs.
– MALMY of fruit: mellow, soft, juiceless; of food generally: vapid, tasteless …1843 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TAMMACHLESS tasteless, insipid …1825 Sc.
– WALLOW tasteless, insipid; sickly …c897 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WALLOWISH insipid, tasteless, flat; also, ill-tasting, nauseous, esp. through being over-sweet …1548 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WALSH insipid, tasteless, ill-tasting; having a sickly taste, nauseous …1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– WELSH insipid, tasteless; of cider, etc.: watery, poor …1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.
NOUNS
1808 ► WALSHNESS insipidity; tastelessness → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1899 ► WABBLE wishy-washy, tasteless liquid food or drink → Sc.
NOUNS, PERSON
1714 ► SARACEN an ignorant and tasteless person; a barbarian → obs.
1950 ► MADGE a tasteless person → homosexual sl.
1980 ► SANTA CLAUS a vulgar, gaudy, and tasteless dresser → US sl.