prettygoodword: text: words are sexy (words are sexy)
prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2014-04-17 07:16 am

toothsome

toothsome (TOOTH-sum) - adj., pleasing to the taste, appetizing; desirable, voluptuous, sexually alluring (esp. in appearance).


As you might guess from the elements, the taste sense came first -- first attested in writing in 1551. I've seen it used in the sexually appealing sense more often, though.

---L.

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