gusto
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toʊ noun, plural gus·toes.
1.
hearty or keen enjoyment, as in eating or drinking, or in action or speech in general: to dance with gusto. Synonyms: enthusiasm, delight, relish, zest, spirit, fervor.
2.
individual taste or liking: The boy is an imaginative charmer, with a gusto for storytelling.
3.
Archaic. artistic style or taste.
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| —n | |
| vigorous enjoyment, zest, or relish, esp in the performance of an action: the aria was sung with great gusto | |
| [C17: from Spanish: taste, from Latin gustus a tasting; see | |
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Gusto
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Word Origin & History
gusto
1620s, from It. gusto "taste," from L. gustus "a tasting," related to gustare "to taste," from PIE base *geus- (cf. Skt. jus- "enjoy, be pleased," Avestan zaosa- "pleasure," O.Pers. dau- "enjoy"), a root that forms words for "taste" in Gk. and L., but mostly meaning "try" or "choose" in Gmc. and Celt.
(cf. O.E. cosan, cesan "to choose," Goth. kausjan "to test, to taste of," O.H.G. koston "try," Ger. kosten "taste of"). The semantic development could have been in either direction.
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gusto definition[ˈgəsto]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
He was in the middle of telling a tale with great gusto.
But that's only when he's not promoting or explaining the book, which he does with unique gusto.
People criticise the government and each other with abandon and some gusto.
If it doesn't work first time round, repeat with gusto.
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