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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
savory
I.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
savory grilled vegetables
▪ Americans eat about six billion pounds of savory snacks a year.
▪ There were some less savory businesses at the south end of Sewell Street.
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▪ And yet that warm and savory kitchen was empty.
▪ At a street corner stall, a young man roasted savory chestnuts and served them up in a newspaper cone.
▪ But in glossing over the less savory results of its actions, the organization denies itself a rare opportunity.
▪ For a savory accompaniment, poach in stock with a few cloves to serve with ham, chicken or duck.
▪ Most people rarely consider the savory muffin, served as a bread course with entrees.
▪ Slowly we pull it up through the resistance and find it filled with a light, savory chicken liver mousse.
▪ With a modest smear of mayonnaise and mustard on the savory focaccia, this sandwich is sublime.
II.noun
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▪ Woody herbs, like thyme, marjoram and winter savory stay green in all but the hardest winters and clip into tiny hedging.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Savory

Savory \Sa"vo*ry\ (s[=a]"v[-o]*r[y^]), n. [F. savor['e]e; cf. It. santoreggia, satureja, L. satureia,] (Bot.) An aromatic labiate plant ( Satureia hortensis), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory. [Written also savoury.]

Savory

Savory \Sa"vor*y\ (-[y^]),

  1. [From Savor.] Pleasing to the organs of taste or smell. [Written also savoury.]

    The chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory her


  2. --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
savory

"pleasing in taste or smell," c.1200, from Old French savore "tasty, flavorsome" (Modern French savouré), past participle of savourer "to taste" (see savor (n.)).

savory

aromatic mint, late 14c., perhaps an alteration of Old English sæþerie, which is ultimately from Latin satureia "savory (n.)," a foreign word in Latin. But early history of the word suggests transmission via Old French savereie. In either case, the form of the word probably was altered by influence of the Middle English or Old French form of savory (adj.).

Wiktionary
savory

Etymology 1 a. 1 tasty, attractive to the palate. 2 salty or non-sweet. 3 Not overly sweet. 4 (context figuratively English) Morally or ethically acceptable. n. (label en American spelling) A #Adjective snack. Etymology 2

n. 1 Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus (taxlink Satureja genus noshow=1), grown as culinary flavourings. 2 The leaves of these plants used as a flavouring.

WordNet
savory
  1. adj. morally respectable or inoffensive; "a past that was scarcely savory" [syn: savoury, inoffensive] [ant: unsavory]

  2. having an agreeably pungent taste [syn: piquant, savoury, spicy, zesty]

  3. pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: mouth-watering, savoury, tasty]

  4. n. any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees

  5. dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions [syn: Micromeria juliana]

  6. either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family [syn: savoury]

  7. an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre [syn: savoury]

Wikipedia
Savory

Savory or Savoury may refer to:

  • Herbs of the genus Satureja, particularly :
    • Summer savory (Satureja hortensis), an annual herb, used to flavor food
    • Winter savory (Satureja montana), a perennial herb, also used to flavor food, but less common than summer savory
  • Savoriness, a culinary term traditionally contrasted with sweetness. Savory foods are flavorful but not sweet
    • Umami, also called savoriness, one of the basic tastes detected by the human tongue. This is a more recent, restricted use than the above.
  • Savoury (dish), a small savoury dish, traditionally served towards the end of a formal meal in European cuisine, particularly in Britain and France
  • "Savory" (song), 1994 single by the band Jawbox
  • Savory (ice cream), a brand of ice cream from Nestlé
Savory (song)

"Savory" was the first single released by Jawbox from their 1994 major label debut, For Your Own Special Sweetheart, released as Savory + 3. The song is a description of the female body, according to Allmusic, but in a very cryptic form. The three other songs from the single were later included as bonus tracks for the 2009 reissue of For Your Own Special Sweetheart.

Usage examples of "savory".

As the excellent American chefs Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby have pointed out, grilling forced an entirely new approach to saucemaking: With no residue to deglaze, the cook had to think in terms of savory complements rather than subtle echoes.

The tiny siblings greeted his arrival with weak squeals of joy, for instead of squashy kale pie, Jacko brought spicy chicken galantine, savory and strong.

The filet of baby dewback with caper sauce and fleik-liver pate was the best Trevagg had ever eaten, and when Nightlity hooned, with modestly downcast eyes, that virgins of her people were only permitted fruits and vegetables, Porcellus outdid himself in the production of four courses of lipana berries and honey, puptons of dried magicots and psibara, a baked felbar with savory cream, and staggeringly good bread pudding for dessert.

Besides, Herbert discovered towards the southwest point of the lagoon a natural warren, a slightly damp meadow, covered with willows and aromatic herbs which scented the air, such as thyme, basil, savory, all the sweet-scented species of the labiated plants, which the rabbits appeared to be particularly fond of.

Cover with two cupfuls of bread-crumbs moistened with hot water, and seasoned with butter, salt, pepper, sage, summer savory, and sweet marjoram.

Ketterer was in evening uniform, breeches, white silk stockings and silver-buckled shoes, more florid than usual having enjoyed a mulligatawny soup, barbecued fish, a double helping of the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with potatoes roasted in the dripping and vegetables imported from California, chicken and pheasant pie, a few fried pork sausages, followed by Californian dried apple pie with a lavish portion of the now famous Noble House cream, and to top everything off, a Welsh rarebit savory.

Warrl, once a taste had assured her that the savory portion of meat pie would not have to be put to rewarm beside the fire.

Nikolai, sitting in his office, dreamed of how he would eat his own shchi, the savory smell of which would fill the whole yard, eat on the green grass, sleep in the sun, spend whole hours sitting outside the gate on a bench, gazing at the fields and woods.

Marcella cooked the little clams for the spaghettini and the vegetables for the monk-fish, a savory recipe from her third book.

To put the necessary distance between tajine and a mundane stew, one should conjure up all that is savory, succulent, and delicately perfumed.

She sipped on tangelo juice, enjoying the sweet taste with the savory food.

When we did, after the melancholy epochs of Janet Savory and Tweedy Browner, things proceeded to fall apart.

Soups should be nicely and delicately seasoned, according to the taste of the consumer, by using parsley, sage, savory, thyme, sweet marjoram, sweet basil, or any of the vegetable condiments.

The savory stalls are up ahead and to the right, along Sarayu Marg, on the way to the parade grounds.

French fashion, a salad of watercress and violets, a rabbit stewed in herbs, a roast pheasant with artichoke dressing, boiled lupins, a gammon of bacon in pastry, a Turkish dish of meat, buttered peasecods, French bread and sourdough barley bread, a Rhine wine, Italian cream, a parmesan savory and figs.