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craving
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?e?.v??/
- Rhymes: -e?v??
Etymology 1
From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing (“claim, demand”); equivalent to crave +? -ing.
Noun
craving (plural cravings)
- A strong desire; yearning.
Descendants
- Jamaican Creole: craven
Translations
Etymology 2
From crave.
Verb
craving
- present participle of crave
Further reading
- craving in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- craving in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- carving
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zest
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French zeste.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /z?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
zest (countable and uncountable, plural zests)
- The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
- The orange zest gives the strong flavor in this dish.
- General vibrance of flavour.
- I add zest to the meat by rubbing it with a spice mixture before grilling.
- 1959, Peter De Vries, The Tents of Wickedness, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., “The Treehouse,” Chapter 7, p. 92,[1]
- He rolled his own cigarettes from a sack of Bull Durham, spilling flakes into his beer, which no doubt gained in zest thereby.
- 1978, Joseph Singer et al. (translators), Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Fawcett Crest, Part One, Chapter Five, 1, p. 99,[2]
- Bashele’s dishes tasted as good as they had when I was a child. No one could give to the borscht such a sweet-and-sour zest as Bashele.
- (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
- Auntie Mame had a real zest for life.
- 1728, Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion, Satire II in The Works of the Reverend Edward Young, London: P. Brown, H. Hill & S. Payne, 1765, Volume I, p. 85,[3]
- Almighty vanity! to thee they owe
- Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe.
- 1807, Thomas Cogan, An Ethical Treatise on the Passions, Bath: Hazard & Binns, Part 1, Disquisition 1, Chapter 1, Section 1 “On the utility of the Passions and Affections,” p. 51,[4]
- Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse.
- 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1995, Chapter 9, p. 101,[5]
- Once started, Mrs. Bolton was better than any book, about the lives of the people. She knew them all so intimately, and had such a peculiar, flamey zest in all their affairs, it was wonderful, if just a trifle humiliating to listen to her.
- 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York: Dell, 1963, Book Two, Chapter 2, p. 221,[6]
- The singers, male and female, wore blue jeans and long hair and had more zest than talent.
- (rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
- 2006, N. J. Nusha, On the Edge (Short Stories), Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, p. 85,
- The green zest of walnuts was used by the women to shine their teeth and it also gave a beautiful rust colour to their lips.
- 2006, N. J. Nusha, On the Edge (Short Stories), Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, p. 85,
Synonyms
- (enthusiasm): gusto, relish
- (general vibrance of flavour): punch, spice, tang, zing
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
zest (third-person singular simple present zests, present participle zesting, simple past and past participle zested)
- (cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit.
- To make more zesty.
- 1792, James Cobb, The Siege of Belgrade, a Comic Opera, in Three Acts, page 47:
- Strains ?o artle?s tho’ we proffer,
Hearts o’er flowing zest the offer.
- Strains ?o artle?s tho’ we proffer,
- 1792, James Cobb, The Siege of Belgrade, a Comic Opera, in Three Acts, page 47:
Derived terms
- zester
References
Anagrams
- Tsez
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /z?st/
Noun
zest m (plural zests)
- zest (of a fruit)
Further reading
- “zest” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Noun
zest c
- zest; the outer skin of a citrus fruit
Declension
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