tasty

CEFRA1

/ˈteɪsti/

adjective

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01
adjective
Having a pleasant flavor.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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These items will make an attractive and tasty display.
You could make this tasty meal for breakfast.
Country fans probably remember Stu best for a tasty tune he wrote and recorded but didn't want released.

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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 the tastiest way to introduce it to your table. […] Lightly sautéing fresh spinach in a drizzle of olive or avocado oil meets this baseline, and it’s tasty and nutritious as well.
2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN
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 be tastier in Japan.
2023 June 15, Rebecca Wallwork, “‘You had to be there’: Foods that taste better on home turf”, in CNN
we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it
1840 February, Edgar Allan Poe, “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”, in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, volume 6, number 2, page 87
Country fans probably remember Stu best for a tasty tune he wrote and recorded but didn't want released.
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 5
The mate had procured other tasties too, olives and such, for later in the evening.
2011, Nick Ardley, The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

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From taste + -y. The Philippine sense is due to a genericized trademark from Taystee Bread Company, a defunct American company.