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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tasty
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
delicious/tasty
▪ Thanks for dinner – the food was delicious.
tasty morsels
▪ birds searching for tasty morsels
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
▪ They are best used for cocktail savouries, but the cheaper mussels make a very tasty pasta sauce.
▪ Oh, and the okonomiyaki is very tasty.
▪ Gordon thought the proposition sounded very tasty.
▪ Having enjoyed a very tasty breakfast, he feels good and returns to his room to collect his luggage.
▪ Struck as always by its resemblance to human brain. Very tasty as salad, lemon dressing.
▪ Estate agents think it will be a very tasty morsel for an international company.
▪ I think it's a very tasty season!
▪ It transpired that Hush Puppies were cornmeal fritters, seasoned with eggs and beer, and very tasty.
■ NOUN
food
▪ It was all good wholesome tasty food in those days.
▪ Ceratopteris is tasty food for aquarium snails.
▪ She was chilly and irritable, liked tasty foods and vinegar, and had an aversion to fat, meat and milk.
▪ There is usually a desire for vinegar, pickles and tasty foods, and a dislike for fat, meat and milk.
morsel
▪ I asked Jon if the plants proved to be a tasty morsel for the Forest's ponies.
▪ Estate agents think it will be a very tasty morsel for an international company.
▪ Then, she became Poppy and sought out new, tasty morsels.
▪ A long plastic tube containing a tasty morsel of food in the middle was placed in their cage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She makes really tasty dish with chicken and rice.
▪ These cookies are very tasty.
▪ These sausages are really tasty - where did you buy them?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After putting the dishes together, the editor has a full-course meal-a tasty one, if possible.
▪ Ceratopteris is tasty food for aquarium snails.
▪ Families can drop the custom of serving unappetizing desserts and start tasty new holiday traditions, Eisenberg suggests.
▪ Fruits ripened on the vine are tasty but soft and difficult to transport.
▪ She was chilly and irritable, liked tasty foods and vinegar, and had an aversion to fat, meat and milk.
▪ The breakfast is complete and tasty.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tasty

Tasty \Tast"y\ (t[=a]st"[y^]), a. [Compar. Tastier (t[=a]st"[i^]*[etl]r); superl. Tastiest.]

  1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.

  2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tasty

1610s, "having agreeable flavor, palatable," from taste (n.) + -y (2); in late 18c. it also could mean "tasteful, elegant" (from the secondary sense of taste (n.)). Related: Tastiness.

Wiktionary
tasty

a. 1 Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor; delicious. 2 (context obsolete English) Having or showing good taste; tasteful. 3 (context slang English) Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing. 4 (context UK informal English) skillful; highly competent. 5 (context UK informal English) potentially violent.

WordNet
tasty
  1. adj. especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel" [syn: dainty]

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

  3. [also: tastiest, tastier]

Wikipedia
Tasty (Good Rats album)

Tasty is a 1974 album by Good Rats and was released on the Warner Brothers Records label.

Tasty

Tasty may refer to:

  • Taste, a sense
Tasty (The Shadows album)

Tasty is the eleventh rock album by British instrumental (and sometimes vocal) group The Shadows, released in 1977 through Columbia (EMI).

Tasty (band)

Tasty is a Chinese duo formed by Woollim Entertainment in 2012.The group composed of two male twins: Daeryong and Soryong. Their debuted in 2012 with release single Spectrum.

Tasty (Kelis album)

Tasty is the third studio album by American singer Kelis, released on December 5, 2003 by Star Trak Entertainment and Arista Records. As executive producer, Kelis enlisted previous collaborators The Neptunes to produce the album, as well as new collaborators such as Raphael Saadiq, Dallas Austin, André 3000, Rockwilder, and Dame Blackmon "Grease". It also features guest vocals from Saadiq, André 3000, and then-boyfriend Nas.

The album was met with positive reviews from critics, who praised its originality and viewed it as an improvement on Kelis' previous albums, Kaleidoscope (1999) and Wanderland (2001). Tasty debuted at number 27 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 93,600 copies, earning Kelis the best sales week of her career in the United States. The album also became her highest-peaking album in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 11 on the UK Albums Chart. It spawned four singles, including the international hits " Milkshake" and " Trick Me".

Tasty (Patti LaBelle album)

Tasty is the second solo album released by recording artist Patti LaBelle, her second solo album with Epic Records. Compared to the success of her debut album, released the previous year, the album performed only modestly well but featured the popular tunes "Eyes in the Back of My Head", which became a club hit, the Latin soul flavored "Teach Me Tonight (Me Gusta Tu Baile)", the David Lasley composition "I See Home" (later covered a year later by Tina Turner) and the ballad "Little Girls". "Eyes in the Back of My Head" became an international hit reaching the top five of the Italian singles chart. The album also featured covers of songs by Boz Scaggs, The Drifters and Roy Hamilton in addition to a couple songs co-written by LaBelle herself, including "Teach Me Tonight" and "Quiet Time".

Usage examples of "tasty".

He and his agemates had hunted in the sea for tasty mirrat, small finned swimmers which only migrated through the area at that time of the orbital cycle.

For some odd and unaccountable reason, the tasty, crunchy part of a barbecued rib does not matter.

A sort of wild, rangy presence, not physically threatening to a grown man perhaps, but he could understand how he was able to dominate his roommate Beano, and to attract a tasty wee girl like that Andrina, even though she was a few years older than him.

An egret perched on a nearby limb swooped down and caught the Bluegill before it even hit the water and took off for its nest, she supposed, where he and the egret-wife and birdlets would share a tasty dinner.

No doubt it would make a tasty meal for the birdlings left in some lofty aerie.

But the Caribe houses were in evidence, and the turtle stew was tasty, and the fishing was good, and Siete Altares was something out of a South Seas movie, each pool shaded by ceiba trees, their branches dripping with orchids, hummingbirds flitting everywhere in the thickets.

She had one copper kern left and felt sure Gip would want her to spend it on something nice and tasty to eat.

Habergeon: A chain-mail shirt Haut-gousts: Tasty things Headborough: A constable Hiccius Doctius: A nonsense word used by jugglers, conjurers etc.

Along with the muscular coffee and the shortbread, Hurks produced a packet of dried, leathery mutton that Michael found tasty, but Chesna and Lazaris had difficulty swallowing.

Hares, giant hamsters, and great jerboas were large enough for a meal, and tasty when skinned and skewered over an evening fire.

Not only did splitting up ruin any chance for a convoy to use their wedges for mutual protection, but it also strung the ships out into a space-going shish kabob, presenting the raider with a series of bite-sized morsels from which he could choose whichever looked the tastiest.

But chef Tripp Mauldin, previously at Michael Mina and the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco, who arrived in mid-2005, has upped the culinary ante in a big way, offering fabulous crispy roast chicken with summer corn, chanterelles, lardoons, baby potatoes, and jus, outstanding burgers, and tasty seafood such as King salmon with arugula salad, heirloom tomatoes, olives, basil, and parmesan.

There was a minestrone so thick with vegetables and so heavily crusted with grated cheese that it was almost as satisfying as a meat stew, and a pilaff of rice and peanuts and mushrooms with a smothering of fried onions that was surprisingly tasty.

Because he was starting to get a bit hungry himself, and he figured that Puma would be famished after her ordeal, he decided to make a brief stop at a minimart to pick up some tasty snacks for the return trip.

For the layers, she mixes together soy hamburger crumbles, a good tomato sauce filled with mushrooms and finely chopped vegetables, low-fat mozzarella cheese, and non-fat ricotta cheese made even tastier by a good infusion of pesto.