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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishdelicious, fromAnglo-Normandelicious, fromOld Frenchdelicious, delicieux, fromLate Latindēliciōsus(“delicate, delicious”), fromdēliciae(“delights”), plural ofdēlicia(“pleasure”), fromdelicere(“to allure, to entice”), fromde-(“away”) +laciō(“I lure, I deceive”), fromProto-Italic*lakjō(“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Displaced nativeOld Englishārlīċ(“delicious”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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delicious (comparativemoredelicious,superlativemostdelicious)

  1. Pleasing to the sense oftaste;tasty.
    • 1913,Edgar Rice Burroughs,The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published1963, page120:
      It was quite dark by the time Tarzan had gorged himself. Ah, but it had beendelicious! Never had he quite accustomed himself to the ruined flesh that civilized men had served him, and in the bottom of his savage heart there had constantly been the craving for the warm meat of the fresh kill, and the rich, red blood.
  2. (colloquial, figurative) Pleasing to a person's taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.
    The irony isdelicious!
    • 1986, Patrick Lichfield,Courvoisier's Book of the Best, page230:
      But the houses are sodelicious and the way they're townscaped on to hilly bits is absolutely wonderful.
    • 1749,Henry Fielding,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:A[ndrew] Millar, […],→OCLC:
      Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld sodelicious an evening?
  3. (slang) Having tremendoussex appeal.

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Translations

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pleasing to taste

Anagrams

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Old French

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Etymology

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FromLate Latindēliciōsus, see above.

Adjective

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delicious m (oblique and nominative feminine singulardeliciouse)

  1. delicious; tasty
  2. noble;courtly;courteous

Declension

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Casemasculinefeminineneuter
singularsubjectdeliciousdeliciousedelicious
obliquedeliciousdeliciousedelicious
pluralsubjectdeliciousdeliciousesdelicious
obliquedeliciousdeliciousesdelicious

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