Fromtaste +-y. The Philippine sense is due to agenericized trademark from Taystee Bread Company, adefunctAmerican company.
tasty (comparativetastier,superlativetastiest)
- Having a pleasant or satisfyingflavor.
- Synonyms:delicious;see alsoThesaurus:delicious
- Antonyms:nontasty,untasty;see alsoThesaurus:delicious
You could make thistasty meal for breakfast.
2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, inCNN[1]:Now, with all these provisos in mind, what’s the best way to put spinach to work? All due respect to Popeye, a can may not be thetastiest way to introduce it to your table.[…] Lightly sautéing fresh spinach in a drizzle of olive or avocado oil meets this baseline, and it’stasty and nutritious as well.
2023 June 15, Rebecca Wallwork, “‘You had to be there’: Foods that taste better on home turf”, inCNN[2]:As Trevor Corson, author of “The Story of Sushi” explains, in Japan, sushi is typically eaten at a bar, where it’s customary for the customer to chat with the chef, who can recommend what’s in season. The short window during which the fish is fresh also makes it more likely to betastier in Japan.
- (obsolete) Having or showing goodtaste;tasteful.
- Antonyms:untasteful;see alsoThesaurus:gaudy
These items will make an attractive andtasty display.
1840 February,Edgar Allan Poe, “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”, inBurton's Gentleman's Magazine[3], volume 6, number 2, page87:we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay sometasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it
- (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 atasty tune he wrote and recorded but didn't want released.
- (UK, informal)Skillful; highlycompetent.
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:skillful
- (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 bittasty in 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 bittasty and, yeah, it was a great at the bar that night getting the drinks in.
2014 September 5, “Honest scrappers”, inBBC News[4]:These empires of rusting metal have long been portrayed in film, fiction and TV as a haunt of the wide boy, thetasty geezer, and many other variants of ne'er-do-well
having a pleasant or satisfying flavor
—seedelicioushaving or showing good taste
Translations to be checked
tasty (pluraltasties)
- (informal) Something tasty; adeliciousarticle offood.
2011, Nick Ardley,The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler:The mate had procured othertasties too, 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.
- (Philippines, dated) Aloaf ofbread.
- Visitacion R. De La Torre (2002),Cultural Icons of the Philippines[5], Tower Book House, page250
