taste.html - See: LEAVE A BAD TASTE IN ONE'S MOUTH.

taste.html - {n. phr.} Being treated in the same way you treat others; something bad done to you as you have done bad to other people. * /Jim was always playing tricks on other boys. Finally they decided to give him a dose of his own medicine./

taste.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a the sensation characteristic of a soluble substance caused in the mouth and throat by contact with that substance (disliked the taste of garlic). b the faculty of perceiving this sensation (was bitter to the taste).
2 a small portion of food or drink taken as a sample.
3 a slight experience (a taste of success).
4 (often foll. by for) a liking or predilection (has expensive tastes; is not to my taste).
5 aesthetic discernment in art, literature, conduct, etc., esp. of a specified kind (a person of taste; dresses in poor taste).

--v.

1 tr. sample or test the flavour of (food etc.) by taking it into the mouth.
2 tr. (also absol.) perceive the flavour of (could taste the lemon; cannot taste with a cold).
3 tr. (esp. with neg.) eat or drink a small portion of (had not tasted food for days).
4 tr. have experience of (had never tasted failure).
5 intr. (often foll. by of) have a specified flavour (tastes bitter; tastes of onions).

a bad (or bitter etc.) taste colloq. a strong feeling of regret or unease. taste blood see BLOOD . taste bud any of the cells or nerve-endings on the surface of the tongue by which things are tasted. to taste in the amount needed for a pleasing result (add salt and pepper to taste).

tasteable adj. [ME, = touch, taste, f. OF tast, taster touch, try, taste, ult. perh. f. L tangere touch + gustare taste]

taste.html - adj.
having, or done in, good taste.

tastefully adv. tastefulness n.

taste.html - adj.
1 lacking flavour.
2 having, or done in, bad taste.

tastelessly adv. tastelessness n.

taste.html - n.
1 a person employed to test food or drink by tasting it, esp. for quality or hist. to detect poisoning.
2 a small cup used by a wine-taster.
3 an instrument for extracting a small sample from within a cheese. [ME f. AF tastour, OF tasteur f. taster: see TASTE]