different between savory vs luscious

English

Alternative forms

• savoury (British; usually only for etymology 1)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?v??i/

Etymology 1

From the Middle English savory, savourie, from Old French savouré, from Old French savourer, from Late Latin sap?r?re, present active infinitive of sap?r?, from Latin sapor (“taste, flavour”), from sapi?, sapere (“taste of, have a flavour of”).

Adjective

savory (comparative savorier, superlative savoriest) (American spelling)

1. Tasty, attractive to the palate.

   The fine restaurant presented an array of savory dishes; each was delicious.

2. Salty and/or spicy, but not sweet.

   The mushrooms, meat, bread, rice, peanuts and potatoes were all good savory foods.

3. umami, modern

   The savory rabbit soup contrasted well with the sweet cucumber sandwiches with jam.

4. (figuratively) Morally or ethically acceptable.

   Readers are to be warned that quotations in this chapter contain some not so savory language.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:delicious

Translations

See also

• umami

Noun

savory (plural savories)

1. (American spelling) A savory snack.

Etymology 2

Wikispecies From Middle English saverey, possibly from Old English sæþerie, from Latin satureia, influenced by or via Old French savereie.

Noun

savory (countable and uncountable, plural savories)

1. Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus Satureja, grown as culinary flavourings.
2. The leaves of these plants used as a flavouring.

Derived terms

• summer savory (Satureja hortensis)
• winter savory (Satureja montana)

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• lushious (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier lushious, lussyouse (“luscious, richly sweet, delicious”), a corruption of *lustious, from lusty (“pleasant, delicious”) +? -ous. Shakespeare uses both lush (short for lushious) and lusty in the same sense: "How lush and lusty the grass looks" (The Tempest ii. I.52).

An alternative etymology connects luscious to a Middle English term: lucius, an alteration of licious, believed to be a shortening of delicious.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l???s/
• Rhymes: -???s

Adjective

luscious (comparative more luscious, superlative most luscious)

1. Sweet and pleasant; delicious.
   • 1863, H.S. Thompson, Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden

     Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks.

   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

     There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.

2. Sexually appealing; seductive.
3. Obscene.

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