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delicious (iou)



delicious adjective & noun. ME.
[Old French (mod. delicieux) from late Latin deliciosus, from Latin delicia, pl. deliciae: see DELICE, -OUS.]
A. adjective.
Highly delightful; giving great pleasure or enjoyment; intensely amusing. ME.
C. Kingsley A delicious joke it would have been. Arnold Bennett A delicious wave of joy and of satisfaction animated him.
Highly pleasing to the bodily senses, esp. to those of taste or smell. ME.
V. Woolf These delicious mouthfuls of roast duck. B. Pym The delicious fragrance of shrubs. I. Murdoch He paraded his delicious fiancee in theatre foyers.
Characterized by or addicted to sensuous indulgence. ME-L17.
b. noun. (Also Delicious.) A variety of eating apple of N. American origin. E20.
Golden Delicious: see GOLDEN adjective. Red Delicious: see RED adjective.
deliciously adverb ME.
deliciousness noun LME.