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View synonyms for mouth-watering

mouth-watering

[ mouth-waw-ter-ing, -wot-er- ]

adjective

  1. very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description:

    a mouth-watering dessert.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of mouth-watering1

First recorded in 1815–25

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Example Sentences

Finally, Deborah Racicot of Narcissa prepares mouth-watering (and non-basic) pumpkin crepes with warm sage cinnamon en glaze.

Along with descriptions of mouth-watering meals are eye-watering depictions of violence.

Colorful tints, eye-catching graphics and mouth-watering images combined and voila, the menu was born!

He talks to Isabel Wilkinson about their mouth-watering collaboration—and what's next.

From a purely visual perspective, Cotton's art is mouth-watering.

When I came to serve the dessert Sally was watching me with her eagle eye and her mouth watering.

It was a superb and mouth-watering close-up, to use the film phrase.

She had golden hair, large violet eyes, a smile that would melt a Loyola, and diamonds that set every woman's mouth watering.

One reads of it, his mouth watering and his stomach crying out.

Within a quarter of an hour there arose a savoury odour that set David's mouth watering.

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