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toothsome, a.|ˈtuːθsəm|
[See -some1.]
1. Pleasant to the taste, savoury, palatable: cf. tooth n. 2 a.
c1565Sparke Sir J. Hawkins' 2nd Voy. (Hakl. Soc.) 46 We..found water, which although it were neither so toothsome as running water..yet did we not refuse it. 1584Cogan Haven Health cc. (1636) 189 Vineger, that is not onely toothsome, but wholesome also. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xviii. 260 The Patattoes, which they eate as a delicate and toothsome meate. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. iv. (1734) 340, I began to find a Craving..for more solid and Toothsome Food. 1899E. Callow Old Lond. Tav. ii. 286 Hard to please if they cannot select something toothsome from the menu.
b. fig. or in fig. context: Pleasant, ‘palatable’.
1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 83 Speaking thinges nothing tothsome. a1568Coverdale Carrying Christ's Cross iv. 59 Seeing our phisician..(Iesus Chryst I meane) telleth vs that it is veri wholsome, how so euer it be toothsome. 1648in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iv. (1701) II. 1047 Your only News is not very Toothsom but it may prove wholesom. 1805J. Ramsay Scot. & Scotsm. in 18th C. (1888) I. 287 Elegant and toothsome sermons were most in request.
2. Having a ‘dainty tooth’; fond of savoury food.
1837R. Nicoll Poems (1842) 95 She kent na, douse woman! how toothsome was he. 1848Lytton Harold vii. i, The Earl is a toothsome man.
†3. Resembling a tooth; ‘biting’, sharp. Obs.
1601T. Morley Madrigales, etc. Ded., Whose malice (being as toothsome as the Adders sting).
Hence ˈtoothsomely adv.; ˈtoothsomeness.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. i. (1619) 336 Others stand so much vpon toothsomnes of their meate. 1871‘Mark Twain’ Let. 25 Dec. in C. Clemens My Father Mark Twain (1931) 53 Gossip of any kind, and about anybody is one of the most toothsomely Christian dishes I know of. 1880E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones 12 Here..apples mellowed toothsomely under the matted grass. 1887Besant The World went xxxvii, I live sufficiently, and..with toothsomeness. |