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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mouth-watering
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the mouth-watering smell of freshly baked bread
▪ The delicatessen sells a mouth-watering variety of cooked meats and cheeses.
▪ The waitress came round with a tray of mouth-watering cream cakes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Breakfast and lunch are well-presented with abundant and mouth-watering self-service buffets.
▪ Corbett could smell the heavy, thick fragrance of those mouth-watering dishes he had seen being prepared in the kitchen.
▪ The Kintyre bar has a large selection of mouth-watering whiskies and the meals in the restaurant offer high quality cooking.
▪ The many mouth-watering desserts of Touraine are based on fruits.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mouth-watering

1822, from mouth (n.) + water (v.).

Wiktionary
mouth-watering

a. (alternative form of mouthwatering English)

WordNet
mouth-watering

adj. pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: savory, savoury, tasty]

Usage examples of "mouth-watering".

He hoped she would soon offer him yet another piece of that mouth-watering almond cake.

The menu even included a mountainous, mouth-watering pile of soya bean-burgers fresh from a giant microwave.