tasty

comparative tastier · superlative tastiest

1. Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.

   You could make this tasty meal for breakfast.

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   Now, with all these provisos in mind, what’s the best way to put spinach to work? All due respect to Popeye, a can may not be the tastiest way to introduce it to your table. […] Lightly sautéing fresh spinach in a drizzle of olive or avocado oil meets this baseline, and it’s tasty and nutritious as well.

   2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN

   As Trevor Corson, author of “The Story of Sushi” explains, in Japan, sushi is typically eaten at a bar, where it’s customary for the customer to chat with the chef, who can recommend what’s in season. The short window during which the fish is fresh also makes it more likely to be tastier in Japan.

   2023 June 15, Rebecca Wallwork, “‘You had to be there’: Foods that taste better on home turf”, in CNN

   Synonyms: delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, dainty, delectable, delicious, delish, exquisite · Antonyms: nontasty, untasty, ambrosial, appetizing, dainty, delectable, delicious, delish

2. obsoleteHaving or showing good taste; tasteful.

   These items will make an attractive and tasty display.

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   we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it

   1840 February, Edgar Allan Poe, “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”, in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, volume 6, number 2, page 87

   Antonyms: untasteful, bedizened, blatant, blingish, brash, campy, catchpenny, chichi

3. slangAppealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.

   Country fans probably remember Stu best for a tasty tune he wrote and recorded but didn't want released.

   1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 5

   Synonyms: sexy, alluring, arousing, attractive, bangable, beautiful, beddable, bedworthy

4. UKinformalSkillful; highly competent.
5. UKinformalPotentially violent.

   These empires of rusting metal have long been portrayed in film, fiction and TV as a haunt of the wide boy, the tasty geezer, and many other variants of ne'er-do-well

   2014 September 5, “Honest scrappers”, in BBC News

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   I watched it all unfold live on Sky News. Ed Miliband was there, but so were the usual bunch of troublemakers and I, for one, was expecting it to kick off.¶ Sure enough, it all got a bit tasty in the afternoon at about the time I should have been polishing off my tinned tuna. Only there was no one about to dish out my grub.¶ They were all glued to the telly watching a gang of blokes wearing balaclavas smash the windows of a Porsche showroom in Park Lane.

   2011, James Robinson, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days, →ISBN

   No, I wouldn't take a bullet for him, or any of them,I wasn't paid enough to go that far, but I would break up a scrap if it all got a bit tasty and, yeah, it was a great at the bar that night getting the drinks in.

   2012, Craig Summers, Bodyguard: My Life on the Front Line, →ISBN

6. UKarchaicdialectalHaving good taste; tasteful.

   But you must wear pink, my dear; that blue thing as your aunt Glegg gave you turns you into a crowflower. Jane never was tasty.

   1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons

plural tasties

1. informalSomething tasty; a delicious article of food.

   The mate had procured other tasties too, olives and such, for later in the evening.

   2011, Nick Ardley, The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

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   Sean then made up the most delicious pâté to have with biscuits and various other tasties.

   2017, Susan M. Hall, My Vanishing African Dreams

2. PhilippinesdatedA loaf of bread.