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tasty
[
tey
-stee
]
Example Sentences
Origin
tast·y
/
ˈteɪ
sti
/
Show Spelled
[
tey
-stee
]
Show IPA
adjective,
tast·i·er,
tast·i·est.
1.
good-tasting; savory:
a tasty canapé.
2.
Informal
.
having or showing good
taste
;
tasteful
.
Origin:
1610–20;
taste
+
-y
1
Related forms
tast·i·ly,
adverb
tast·i·ness,
noun
un·tast·i·ly,
adverb
un·tast·y,
adjective
Can be confused:
tasteful
,
tasty
.
Synonyms
1.
delicious, delectable, toothsome, appetizing.
See
palatable.
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Tasty
is always a great word to know.
So is
ort
. Does it mean:
So is
doohickey
. Does it mean:
So is
gobo
. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Example Sentences
Seared cabbage is so
tasty
it is almost addictive.
Fromage, you may be famous forever, but not in a
tasty
way.
Cadbury's success in realigning its business makes it a
tasty
target.
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Seared cabbage is so
tasty
it is almost addictive.
Fromage, you may be famous forever, but not in a
tasty
way.
Cadbury's success in realigning its business makes it a
tasty
target.
Craft some fortune cookies, a sweet snack, or even some
tasty
treats for your cat or dog.
As the holidays approach, so do
tasty
treats laden with calories, many of them provided by fat.
And
tasty
viceroy butterflies are safe from birds because they resemble monarchs, which are unpalatable.
Tasty
short ribs, browned and slow-cooked in a single.
They produce a quick,
tasty
cuppa superior to anything that.
Wilson cooked about two pounds the first night and it was indeed quite
tasty
.
Our cafeterias have really
tasty
pizzas at every meal.
The cicada is also
tasty
to fellow animals-which is precisely the point of its extraordinary life-cycle.
Studying spices is a
tasty
way for students to learn about natural resources, trade, and our use of international products.
Rats given a choice between highly sweetened water and intravenous cocaine overwhelmingly favored the
tasty
beverage.
And for the animals that fed on them, dinosaur eggs were
tasty
packages of protein.
Celebrate the year of the pig with festive,
tasty
foods symbolizing luck and goodwill.
Brewing coffee is fairly simple and yields powerful, yet
tasty
cups.
Eating more vegetables can be as easy as putting out a candy dish, and as
tasty
as candy itself.
It is always craving new and more
tasty
morsels-which may not be the best, or truest, things for anyone's digestion.
The reflections of the clicks they generate tell them whether anything nearby might make a
tasty
meal.
But the history of this cool treat is full of great moments and
tasty
trivia.
Dieters are engaged in a constant battle between losing weight and eating
tasty
food.
Use your own ingenuity to convert every bit of food into a healthful,
tasty
dish.
Chicken thighs braised with lemon, olives, and garlic make a quick and
tasty
meal.
Here are the three key elements for brewing your own
tasty
cuppa.
The convenience of a fridge stocked with cold,
tasty
meat to be repurposed with a minimum of fuss.
The university is looking for more-efficient carbon-filtration units that produce water
tasty
enough for the public.
These little brewers are so
tasty
that big ones are lining up to swallow them.
They also use stones to smash open
tasty
nuts and employ leaves as sponges to soak up drinking water.
The entire arrangement makes it easy for this bifocal fish to spot a
tasty
bug flying above the water, or a bit of algae below.
Those
tasty
larvae were destined to become plain brown moths.
Mounded with pickled onions and tender prosicutto, this
tasty
open-faced sandwich is perfect for eating with a knife.
Sauerkraut is a
tasty
and nutritious addition to the bratwurst boiling mixture and is festive as a garnish.
If your stuffing is
tasty
enough, it won't matter that it doesn't have drippings, and the non-vegans can add gravy to it anyway.
One way to tackle dietary conservatism is to concoct
tasty
new recipes.
These small mammals must always be wary of predators because they are
tasty
morsels with few natural defenses, save flight.
Bananas hanging on a tree or sitting in the produce section of the grocery store start out green, plenty hard and none too
tasty
.
And readers never tired of the joy of having something
tasty
to eat when having little or nothing to eat was more often the case.
Cook it hot and rare, and you'll have a versatile meat for a roster of
tasty
dishes.
Boy, we've got some frighteningly
tasty
reviews for your plastic pumpkins this week.
Early on there were plenty of predators who saw us as
tasty
bags of protein.
Hershey's is truly vile, but peanut butter cups are quite
tasty
.
Yes, word gets around when the food's
tasty
and easy on the pocketbook.
Other
tasty
and healthy alternatives to cow's milk include those made from rice, almonds, oats-and even hemp.
As weird as it was, ribeye on a stick was pretty
tasty
.
Try it with spinach and tomatoes, avocado and wontons, or a
tasty
new.
It's
tasty
enough and unusual enough to warrant making once.
Maybe this fruit could be a small as a blueberry and as
tasty
as bubblegum.
Baleen helps the gray whale, and other baleen whales, strain
tasty
morsels of food from the seawater.
Male nursery web spiders lure mates with silk-wrapped offerings, only some of which contain
tasty
treats.
It was a
tasty
drink, but in no way does a martini qualify as health food.
If your usual chicken recipes are in need of an upgrade, these
tasty
meals are sure to put the pep back in your poultry fast.
Brewing coffee is fairly simple and yields powerful,
tasty
cups.
As long as they let us wrestle with each other for those
tasty
oil dollars, we'll be fine.
When that happens, it tries to bluff its way out of becoming a
tasty
treat.
Kills everything while the food stays chrisp and
tasty
.
The cookies also sound
tasty
and worthy of replication.
Sticky sweet replaces blazing buffalo with these
tasty
wings.
Then they installed a slick body kit, the requisite carbon fiber goodies and slathered it in
tasty
red paint.
The durian is a
tasty
fruit, but there's a big problem.
With that kind of exposure, some bugs are bound to figure out how to turn these potential toxins into a
tasty
snack.
They have a wonderful and
tasty
selection of beef to choose from.
They slither through the forest, looking for animals that might make a
tasty
snack.
If it isn't
tasty
and profitable, it's not going to happen.
The varieties described here either fail to fruit at all or bear fruit that is more decorative than
tasty
.
When it comes to a
tasty
treat, nothing is off limits for man's best friend.
The
tasty
bivalves are known for removing excess phytoplankton from water and sequestering nutrients in their shells and flesh.
Its anise or licorice scented leaves make a
tasty
tea.
Their raspy tongues can clean a bone of every last
tasty
morsel.
Capibaras have a solid reputation of being
tasty
to eat.
Paysanne offers creamy caramels, homemade popsicles, and
tasty
cookies.
These
tasty
gifts can be eaten once the spirits have had their fill.
Without doubt i prefer home made food,
tasty
and healthy.
The key to successful grilling is starting with a
tasty
cut of meat.
One of the two roadside restaurants is serving paca-a large rodent that is remarkably
tasty
fried.
At the top end of the scale are crabs with foot-long legs and
tasty
lobsters.
Corms are reportedly
tasty
to baboons, hence the plant's common name.
These pictures show some of the park's critters enjoying carved pumpkins as a
tasty
snack instead of decorations.
The birds get tangled in longline hooks, which are baited with squid and other
tasty
morsels.
See how a chimpanzee wields a stick to get to honey and how the right twist of a stem can mean a
tasty
meal of termites.
Bolt it to a chimp cage, so that the ape will have to get creative to retrieve the
tasty
snack.
When it spots a
tasty
treat, the dragonfly swoops down and catches its prey in the basket.
The authors hypothesize that a balance between these receptors changes a rat's motivation for
tasty
food.
Bathe in an icy lake and share a
tasty
supper of moose meat.
They conveniently forget this when the
tasty
burger arrives or when they wear shoes made by child labor.
One must-try is the bourbon buffalo meatloaf, an enticing and
tasty
union.
And the vinyl's grooves poured out soulful singers, playful highlife guitarists, and
tasty
local percussion.
For as
tasty
as that sweet-and-sour pork may be, eating meat is an incredibly inefficient way to feed oneself.
They are working hard to make life on planet earth
tasty
and good.
But biting off a chunk of
tasty
mucous means the larger fish may flee-so one mischievous cleaner can deprive another from a meal.
The dragonfly larva becomes food for a fish, which provides a
tasty
meal for a raccoon.
If other animals had killed the lion, she said, the
tasty
viscera would have been long gone by the time the early humans arrived.
But beware: while there's good fungus among us, the
tasty
porcini has some poisonous cousins.
For a predator, juicy caterpillars make
tasty
snacks.
Moreover, some fishermen claimed they could catch a hundred of the
tasty
fish in an hour.
On land, they pluck mice and insects from their hiding places and raid nests for
tasty
eggs.
There are a lot of great things that are
tasty
and healthy.
They use this trunk to grab branches and clean them of leaves or to help pluck
tasty
fruit.
Mead, a maker of baby formula, should make a
tasty
target for several food companies.
Finger-lickin' sweet replaces blazing buffalo as the flavorings for these
tasty
wings.
Try this
tasty
salad instead of grilled corn on the cob.
COLLAPSE
Collins
World English Dictionary
tasty
(ˈteɪstɪ)
—
adj
,
tastier
,
tastiest
1.
having a pleasant flavour
2.
informal
(
Brit
) attractive: used chiefly by men when talking of women
3.
informal
(
Brit
) skilful or impressive:
she was a bit tasty with a cutlass
4.
(
NZ
) (of cheddar cheese) having a strong flavour
'tastily
—
adv
'tastiness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
tasty
1610s, from
taste
(n.) +
-y
(2); in late 18c. it also could mean "tasteful, elegant" (from the secondary sense of
taste
(n.)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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