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tasty

adj
/ˈteɪsti/

Etymology

From taste + -y. The Philippine sense is due to a genericized trademark from Taystee Bread Company, a defunct American company.

  1. derived from *teh₂g-✻
  2. derived from taxo
  3. derived from *tastāre✻
  4. derived from taster
  5. inherited from tasten
  6. suffixed as tasty — “taste + -y”

Definitions

  1. Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.

    • You could make this tasty meal for breakfast.

  2. Having or showing good taste

    Having or showing good taste; tasteful.

    • These items will make an attractive and tasty display.
    • we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it

  3. Appealing

    Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.

    • Country fans probably remember Stu best for a tasty tune he wrote and recorded but didn't want released.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Skillful

      Skillful; highly competent.

    2. Potentially violent.

      • No, I wouldn't take a bullet for him, or any of them,I wasn't paid enough to go that far, but I would break up a scrap if it all got a bit tasty and, yeah, it was a great at the bar that night getting the drinks in.
      • These empires of rusting metal have long been portrayed in film, fiction and TV as a haunt of the wide boy, the tasty geezer, and many other variants of ne'er-do-well

    3. Something tasty

      Something tasty; a delicious article of food.

      • The mate had procured other tasties too, olives and such, for later in the evening.
      • Sean then made up the most delicious pâté to have with biscuits and various other tasties.

    4. A loaf of bread.

The neighborhood

Derived

tasty cheese

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tasty. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA