tasty

English

Etymology

Fromtaste+‎-y.

The Philippine sense is due to agenericized trademarkfrom Taystee Bread Company, adefunctAmericancompany.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈteɪsti/

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-eɪsti

Adjective

tasty(comparativetastier,superlativetastiest)

1. Having a pleasant or satisfyingflavor.

   Synonyms:delicious;see alsoThesaurus:delicious

   Antonyms:nontasty,untasty;see alsoThesaurus:delicious

   You could make thistastymeal for breakfast.

2. (obsolete)Having or showing goodtaste;tasteful.

   Antonyms:untasteful;see alsoThesaurus:gaudy

   These items will make an attractive andtastydisplay.

3. (slang)Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.

   Synonyms:sexy;see alsoThesaurus:sexy

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

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

4. (UK,informal)Skillful;highlycompetent.

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:skillful

5. (UK,informal)Potentiallyviolent.
   • 2011,James Robinson,The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days,→ISBN:

     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 bittastyin 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.

   • 2012,Craig Summers,Bodyguard: My Life on the Front Line,→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 bittastyand, yeah, it was a great at the bar that night getting the drinks in.

   • 2014September 5, “Honest scrappers”, inBBC News‎^[1]:

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

Derived terms

• tasty cheese

Related terms

• taste
• tasteful

Translations

having a pleasant or satisfying flavor—seedelicious

having or showing good taste

• Armenian:համով(hy)(hamov)
• Bikol Central:managom
• Bulgarian:изискан(bg)(iziskan)
• Chickasaw:champoli
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Mỹ vị

• Dutch:smakelijk(nl)
• French:élégant(fr),avec gout
• German:köstlich(de),lecker(de),schmackhaft(de),geschmackvoll(de)
• Greek:νόστιμος(el)(nóstimos)
• Hebrew:טָעִים
• Hungarian:ízléses(hu)
• Indonesian:sedap(id),nikmat(id)
• Japanese:Phong vị の よい(fūmi no yoi)
• Latvian:gaumīgs
• Portuguese:de/combom gosto
• Russian:изя́щный(ru)(izjáščnyj)
• Spanish:debuengusto
• Ukrainian:ви́тончений(výtončenyj)

slang: appealing

• Bulgarian:апетитен(bg)(apetiten)
• Japanese:おいしそう(oishisō)

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• Dutch:^{(pleaseverify)}smakelijk(nl),^{(pleaseverify)}smakelijke(nl),^{(pleaseverify)}appetijtelijk(nl),^{(pleaseverify)}appetijtelijke(nl)
• Italian:^{(pleaseverify)}saporito(it)
• Korean:^{(pleaseverify)}맛 있는(mat inneun)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish:^{(pleaseverify)}بەتام(ckb)(betam),^{(pleaseverify)}بەلەزەت(belezet)

Noun

tasty(pluraltasties)

1. (informal)Something tasty; a delicious article of food.
   • 2011,Nick Ardley,The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler:

     The mate had procured othertastiestoo, olives and such, for later in the evening.

   • 2017,Susan M. Hall,My Vanishing African Dreams:

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

2. (Philippines,dated)aloafofbread

Further reading

• Visitacion R. De La Torre (2002)Cultural Icons of the Philippines‎^[2],Tower Book House, page250

Anagrams

• yatts