deliciousadj.n.

Brit.

/dᵻˈlɪʃəs/, U.S.

/dəˈlɪʃəs/,

/diˈlɪʃəs/

Forms: Middle English delicyows, Middle English delyciost (superlative), Middle English delycius, Middle English delycyus, Middle English dylecyous, Middle English dylicious, Middle English dylycyus, Middle English–1500s delicius, Middle English–1500s delicyous, Middle English–1500s delycious, Middle English–1500s delyciouse, Middle English–1500s delycyous, Middle English–1500s delycyouse, Middle English–1500s diliciouse, Middle English–1600s deliciouse, Middle English–1600s dilicious, Middle English– delicious, 1500s delitiouse, 1500s dilicyous, 1500s–1600s delitious, 1500s–1600s dilitious, 1600s deliciovs, 1600s delishous; also Scottish pre-1700 delitius, pre-1700 delycyus, pre-1700 delytious, pre-1700 dilicius, pre-1700 dilitious.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French delicious.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French delicious, Anglo-Norman delicius, Anglo-Norman and Middle French delicieus, delicieux (French délicieux ) pleasant, delightful, especially to the bodily senses (early 12th cent.), self-indulgent, addicted to sensuous pleasures (late 13th cent. or earlier), voluptuous, luxurious (late 14th cent.) < post-classical Latin deliciosus pleasant, charming, sensuous, voluptuous, luxurious (4th cent.) < classical Latin dēlicia (see delice n.) + -ōsus -ous suffix.Compare Old Occitan delicios, Catalan deliciós (15th cent.), Spanish delicioso, Italian delizioso (both 13th cent.), Portuguese delicioso (16th cent.).

A. adj.

1. Extremely pleasing to the senses, esp. to the taste or smell; providing great sensual pleasure; delectable; (now usually) very appetizing, highly pleasant to the taste. Sometimes of a person: very attractive.In later use, the meaning ‘very appetizing, highly pleasant to the taste’ is usually perceived as the core meaning, and other uses as figurative applications of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > [adjective]

likingeOE

goodOE

lickerousc1275

deliciousa1325

daintya1382

dainteousc1386

daintiful1393

delicatea1398

merrya1398

savourlyc1400

liciousc1420

savourousa1425

daintethc1430

lustyc1430

feelsomea1450

nuttya1450

seasonablea1475

delicativec1475

unctuous1495

well-tasteda1500

daintive1526

savoury1533

exquisite1561

spicy1562

well-relished?1575

finger-licking1584

toothsome1584

taste-pleasinga1586

daint1590

relishsome1593

lickerish1595

tastesome1598

friand1599

tooth-tempting1603

relishing1605

well-relishing1608

neat1609

hungry1611

palate-pleasing1611

tasteful1611

palatea1617

tastya1617

palatable1619

toothful1622

sipid1623

unsoured1626

famelic1631

tasteablea1641

piquant1645

sapid1646

saporousa1670

slape1671

palativea1682

flavorous1697

nice1709

well-flavoured1717

gusty1721

flavoury1727

fine-palated1735

unrepulsive1787

degustatory1824

zesty1826

peckish1845

mouth-watering1847

flavoursome1853

unreasty1853

unrancida1855

relishy1864

toothy1864

flavoured1867

tasty-looking1867

hungrifying1886

velvety1888

snappy1892

zippy1911

savoursome1922

delish1953

the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > delicious or tasty

likingeOE

deliciousa1325

liciousc1420

ambrosial?1578

finger-licking1584

toothsome1584

well1598

tastya1617

toothful1622

fine-palated1735

toothy1864

scrum1877

scrumptious1894

nummy1923

delish1953

shiok1978

bess2006

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adjective] > pleasing to the senses

lithec888

fairOE

softOE

lickerousc1275

deliciousa1325

kindlya1382

favourablea1398

kinda1398

sugared1426

feelsomea1450

agreeablec1450

comfortablec1460

favourousc1485

grateful1553

sugar candy1575

lickerish1595

savouring1595

maumy1728

tasty1796

lekker1900

a1325 St. Patrick (Corpus Cambr.) l. 616 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 106 Oure Louerd us vet ene Wiþ delicious [c1300 Laud riche] metes of heuene.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xix. 11 Thei askeden metes of delicious eting [L. escas epulationis].

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 71 Ane oþer maner of drinke gude and delicious.

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ei A quyete slepe is right necessary and delycious.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 183 Bananas or Plantanes..the fruite then put into your mouth, melts with mellow ripenesse, and giues a most delicious tast and rellish.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. i. 6 We walked under the delicious Shade of these Trees.

1850 R. W. Emerson Uses of Great Men in Representative Men 10 In Valencia the climate is delicious.

1868 Halifax (Nova Scotia) Citizen 24 Dec. 1/6 Your coffee smells delicious, these cakes look inviting, and my Amelia is hungry, I know she is.

1983 J. R. Roberts Dodge City Gang (e-book ed.) You have no idea how many men in this town have their eye on the delicious Miss Vining.

2000 Marie Claire (Johannesburg) Feb. 151/3 At dusk, sip sundowners on the banks of the lake,..then enjoy a delicious four-course meal featuring local specialities like fabulous fish curries.

†2.

a. Esp. of a person: excessively fond of sensual pleasures; self-indulgent; pleasure-loving. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective]

delicatea1393

deliciousa1393

voluptuous?a1475

pampereda1529

volupteousa1535

wealy1545

lascivious1589

smoothed1600

luxurious1606

luxuriose1727

high life1733

Vie Parisienne1890

decadent1967

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 957 Bot, Sone, if that thou understode What is to ben delicious, Thou woldest noght be curious Upon the lust of thin astat.

c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 921 Of mete nor drinke was sho neuer yhit diliciouse.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cxvj/2 Thyse monckes ben ouer delycious.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 281 Idlenes..Defiles our body, and our soule peruerts: Yea sober'st men, it makes delicious.

1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 71 The Gentry are..Costly in their Apparel, Delicious in their Diet.

1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 448 A delicious mouth or palate.

b. Involving (excessive) gratification of the senses; indulgent; (also) inducing the desire for sensual pleasures. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective] > luxurious (of things)

delicatec1400

delicious?c1450

fleshpot1535

lascivious1589

nice1621

mollitious1629

luxurious1650

luxuriant1671

voluptuous1816

de luxe1819

plushy1884

plush1890

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 54 (MED) The flesshe is tempted by delicious metes and drinkes, the whiche bene letteres and kindelers of the brondes of lecherye.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) ix. §6. 31 The folk of the deuels cites is deliciouse affecciouns of flescly lust.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Fasting i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 280 An abstinence..from all delicious pleasures and delectations worldly.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 22 Forsaking the delicious lives of the effeminate Affricans.

1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 339 The habitual Intemperance which is too commonly annexed to festival and delicious Tables.

a. Very pleasant or enjoyable; very agreeable; delightful; wonderful.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > [adjective]

hightlyOE

delitec1225

joyful1297

delightablec1300

delicatea1382

gladsomec1386

gladdingc1394

delightfula1400

deliciousc1400

delectablec1415

delighting?a1425

delitousa1425

ravishingc1430

joyous1475

delightsomec1484

wealthlya1500

delectary?c1500

sunny1565

sunshine1594

delighted1595

heartsome1596

joysome1616

gladdening1729

scrum1877

heartthrob1907

dilly1909

delish1915

zip-a-dee-doo-dah1945

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 38 Þe wondres of worme and beest—Deliciouse it is to ylest.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 226 (MED) He that hath lytill fete and streyte..and more delycious to se than stronge fette, thay bene febill and feynte.

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 20 Plenti of delicius rivers, pleasauntlie wateringe there feldes.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 125 [Guy's Cliff] a most delicious place, so that a Man in many Miles Riding cannot meet so much variety, as there one furlong doth afford.

1785 F. Pilon Fair Amer. ii. 30 A most delicious time to take a walk I must confess, when it's as dark as pitch, and blows a perfect hurricane.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss II. iv. ii. 162 The poor lad brought his first quarter's money, with a delicious sense of achievement, and gave it to his father.

1906 R. W. Chambers Fighting Chance 145 To breakfast all alone was delicious..to loiter over cream-jug and cereal.

2008 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 28 Dec. (MS2 ed.) 16 A country ballad featuring a languidly powerful vocal on top of a delicious mixture of acoustic, electronic and orchestral instruments.

b. Very amusing or entertaining.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > comical > intensely

delicious1642

rich1675

killing1844

hysterically funny1889

hilarious1925

laugh-out-loud1970

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 43 Delicious! he had that whole bevie at command whether in morrice or at May pole. Whilest I..left so impoverisht of what to say, as to turne my Liturgy into my Ladies Psalter.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. viii. 362 The strut of the foremost cock, lifting one leg at right angles to the other, is delicious.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. vi. 128 A delicious joke it would have been.

1963 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 27 Feb. 4/2 The Legislature has been called again to the rescue, to save the system from itself. What delicious irony!

2019 Express (Nexis) 22 Feb. 32 There are more twists than a 1960s dance marathon in this unsettling tale, along with plenty of Herron's delicious dark humour.

B. n.

With capital initial. Any of various cultivated varieties of dessert apple originating in the United States, most of which belong to a group developed from a single original tree and typically having slightly elongated fruits with shiny red skins and crisp flesh. Frequently with distinguishing word. Also as a modifier.Golden Delicious, Red Delicious: see the first element.Golden Delicious is genetically unrelated to the red-skinned varieties of Delicious.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of

costardc1390

bitter-sweet1393

Queening?1435

richardine?1435

blaundrellc1440

pear apple1440

tuberc1440

quarrendenc1450

birtle1483

deusan1570

apple-john1572

Richard1572

lording1573

greening1577

queen apple1579

peeler1580

darling1584

doucin1584

golding1589

puffin1589

lady's longing1591

bitter-sweeting1597

pearmain1597

paradise apple1598

garden globe1600

gastlet1600

leather-coat1600

maligar1600

pome-paradise1601

French pippin1629

gillyflower1629

king apple1635

lady apple1651

golden pippin1654

goldling1655

puff1655

cardinal1658

green fillet1662

chestnut1664

cinnamon apple1664

fenouil1664

go-no-further1664

Westbury apple1664

seek-no-farther1670

nonsuch1676

calville1691

passe-pomme1691

fennel apple1699

queen1699

genet1706

fig-apple1707

oaken pin1707

nonpareil1726

costing1731

monstrous reinette1731

Newtown pippin1760

Ribston1782

Rhode Island greening1795

oslin1801

fall pippin1803

monstrous pippin1817

Newtown Spitzenburg1817

Gravenstein1821

Red Astrachan1822

Tolman sweet1822

grange apple1823

orange pippin1823

Baldwin1826

Sturmer Pippin1831

Newtowner1846

Northern Spy1847

Blenheim Orange1860

Cox1860

McIntosh Red1876

Worcester1877

raspberry apple1894

delicious1898

Laxton's Superb1920

Macoun1924

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of

costardc1390

bitter-sweet1393

pippin?1435

pomewater?1435

Queening?1435

richardine?1435

blaundrellc1440

pear apple1440

tuberc1440

quarrendenc1450

birtle1483

sweeting1530

pomeroyal1534

renneta1568

deusan1570

apple-john1572

Richard1572

lording1573

russeting1573

greening1577

queen apple1579

peeler1580

reinette1582

darling1584

doucin1584

golding1589

puffin1589

lady's longing1591

bitter-sweeting1597

pearmain1597

paradise apple1598

garden globe1600

gastlet1600

leather-coat1600

maligar1600

pomeroy1600

short-start1600

jenneting1601

pome-paradise1601

russet coat1602

John apple1604

honey apple1611

honeymeal1611

musk apple1611

short-shank1611

spice apple1611

French pippin1629

king apple1635

lady apple1651

golden pippin1654

goldling1655

puff1655

cardinal1658

renneting1658

green fillet1662

chestnut1664

cinnamon apple1664

fenouil1664

go-no-further1664

reinetting1664

Westbury apple1664

seek-no-farther1670

nonsuch1676

white-wining1676

russet1686

calville1691

fennel apple1699

queen1699

genet1706

fig-apple1707

oaken pin1707

musk1708

nonpareil1726

costing1731

monstrous reinette1731

Newtown pippin1760

Ribston1782

Rhode Island greening1795

oslin1801

wine apple1802

fall pippin1803

monstrous pippin1817

Newtown Spitzenburg1817

Gravenstein1821

Red Astrachan1822

Tolman sweet1822

grange apple1823

orange pippin1823

Baldwin1826

wine-sap1826

Jonathan1831

Sturmer Pippin1831

rusty-coat1843

Newtowner1846

Northern Spy1847

Cornish gilliflowerc1850

Blenheim Orange1860

Cox1860

nutmeg pippin1860

McIntosh Red1876

Worcester1877

raspberry apple1894

delicious1898

Laxton's Superb1920

Melba apple1928

Melba1933

Mutsu1951

Newtown1953

discovery1964

1898 Amer. Gardening 7 May 359/3 Please tell us about the new winter apples now coming to the front, the Ozark varieties, Delicious, Black Ben Davis, Commerce, Senator, etc.

1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 42 The most popular export varieties are Sturmer, Delicious, Jonathan, Granny Smith, and Cox's Orange.

2010 G. A. Akerlof & R. J. Shiller Animal Spirits (Paperback ed.) xi. 134 Hardly anyone today really likes the taste of the varietal now called Delicious. And yet these apples are ubiquitous.

Compounds

With present participles, forming adjectives in which delicious expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in delicious-looking, delicious-smelling, etc.

ΚΠ

1797 ‘Amator Veritatis’ Chorismos Aletheias 50 If one of these delicious looking apples be touched, it instantaneously becomes most offensive sulphureous dust.

1874 I. M. Alden & I. H. Foster Mod. Prophets 282 The coffee-pot glistened while it sent up puffs of delicious smelling steam.

1909 C. S. Osborn Andean Land I. ii. 37 That strange fruit of Sumatra, the evil-smelling but delicious-tasting durian.

1950 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 1 Apr. 6/1 A delicious-seeming piece of chocolate.

2013 M. March Finding Colin Firth (large print ed.) xviii. 322 I'd love to treat you to dessert, perhaps a slice of that delicious-looking blackberry pie on the counter.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	delicious
释义	deliciousadj.n. Brit. /dᵻˈlɪʃəs/, U.S. /dəˈlɪʃəs/, /diˈlɪʃəs/ Forms: Middle English delicyows, Middle English delyciost (superlative), Middle English delycius, Middle English delycyus, Middle English dylecyous, Middle English dylicious, Middle English dylycyus, Middle English–1500s delicius, Middle English–1500s delicyous, Middle English–1500s delycious, Middle English–1500s delyciouse, Middle English–1500s delycyous, Middle English–1500s delycyouse, Middle English–1500s diliciouse, Middle English–1600s deliciouse, Middle English–1600s dilicious, Middle English– delicious, 1500s delitiouse, 1500s dilicyous, 1500s–1600s delitious, 1500s–1600s dilitious, 1600s deliciovs, 1600s delishous; also Scottish pre-1700 delitius, pre-1700 delycyus, pre-1700 delytious, pre-1700 dilicius, pre-1700 dilitious. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French delicious. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French delicious, Anglo-Norman delicius, Anglo-Norman and Middle French delicieus, delicieux (French délicieux ) pleasant, delightful, especially to the bodily senses (early 12th cent.), self-indulgent, addicted to sensuous pleasures (late 13th cent. or earlier), voluptuous, luxurious (late 14th cent.) < post-classical Latin deliciosus pleasant, charming, sensuous, voluptuous, luxurious (4th cent.) < classical Latin dēlicia (see delice n.) + -ōsus -ous suffix.Compare Old Occitan delicios, Catalan deliciós (15th cent.), Spanish delicioso, Italian delizioso (both 13th cent.), Portuguese delicioso (16th cent.). A. adj. 1. Extremely pleasing to the senses, esp. to the taste or smell; providing great sensual pleasure; delectable; (now usually) very appetizing, highly pleasant to the taste. Sometimes of a person: very attractive.In later use, the meaning ‘very appetizing, highly pleasant to the taste’ is usually perceived as the core meaning, and other uses as figurative applications of this. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > [adjective] likingeOE goodOE lickerousc1275 deliciousa1325 daintya1382 dainteousc1386 daintiful1393 delicatea1398 merrya1398 savourlyc1400 liciousc1420 savourousa1425 daintethc1430 lustyc1430 feelsomea1450 nuttya1450 seasonablea1475 delicativec1475 unctuous1495 well-tasteda1500 daintive1526 savoury1533 exquisite1561 spicy1562 well-relished?1575 finger-licking1584 toothsome1584 taste-pleasinga1586 daint1590 relishsome1593 lickerish1595 tastesome1598 friand1599 tooth-tempting1603 relishing1605 well-relishing1608 neat1609 hungry1611 palate-pleasing1611 tasteful1611 palatea1617 tastya1617 palatable1619 toothful1622 sipid1623 unsoured1626 famelic1631 tasteablea1641 piquant1645 sapid1646 saporousa1670 slape1671 palativea1682 flavorous1697 nice1709 well-flavoured1717 gusty1721 flavoury1727 fine-palated1735 unrepulsive1787 degustatory1824 zesty1826 peckish1845 mouth-watering1847 flavoursome1853 unreasty1853 unrancida1855 relishy1864 toothy1864 flavoured1867 tasty-looking1867 hungrifying1886 velvety1888 snappy1892 zippy1911 savoursome1922 delish1953 the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > delicious or tasty likingeOE deliciousa1325 liciousc1420 ambrosial?1578 finger-licking1584 toothsome1584 well1598 tastya1617 toothful1622 fine-palated1735 toothy1864 scrum1877 scrumptious1894 nummy1923 delish1953 shiok1978 bess2006 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [adjective] > pleasing to the senses lithec888 fairOE softOE lickerousc1275 deliciousa1325 kindlya1382 favourablea1398 kinda1398 sugared1426 feelsomea1450 agreeablec1450 comfortablec1460 favourousc1485 grateful1553 sugar candy1575 lickerish1595 savouring1595 maumy1728 tasty1796 lekker1900 a1325 St. Patrick (Corpus Cambr.) l. 616 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 106 Oure Louerd us vet ene Wiþ delicious [c1300 Laud riche] metes of heuene. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xix. 11 Thei askeden metes of delicious eting [L. escas epulationis]. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 71 Ane oþer maner of drinke gude and delicious. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ei A quyete slepe is right necessary and delycious. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 183 Bananas or Plantanes..the fruite then put into your mouth, melts with mellow ripenesse, and giues a most delicious tast and rellish. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. i. 6 We walked under the delicious Shade of these Trees. 1850 R. W. Emerson Uses of Great Men in Representative Men 10 In Valencia the climate is delicious. 1868 Halifax (Nova Scotia) Citizen 24 Dec. 1/6 Your coffee smells delicious, these cakes look inviting, and my Amelia is hungry, I know she is. 1983 J. R. Roberts Dodge City Gang (e-book ed.) You have no idea how many men in this town have their eye on the delicious Miss Vining. 2000 Marie Claire (Johannesburg) Feb. 151/3 At dusk, sip sundowners on the banks of the lake,..then enjoy a delicious four-course meal featuring local specialities like fabulous fish curries. †2. a. Esp. of a person: excessively fond of sensual pleasures; self-indulgent; pleasure-loving. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective] delicatea1393 deliciousa1393 voluptuous?a1475 pampereda1529 volupteousa1535 wealy1545 lascivious1589 smoothed1600 luxurious1606 luxuriose1727 high life1733 Vie Parisienne1890 decadent1967 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 957 Bot, Sone, if that thou understode What is to ben delicious, Thou woldest noght be curious Upon the lust of thin astat. c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 921 Of mete nor drinke was sho neuer yhit diliciouse. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cxvj/2 Thyse monckes ben ouer delycious. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 281 Idlenes..Defiles our body, and our soule peruerts: Yea sober'st men, it makes delicious. 1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 71 The Gentry are..Costly in their Apparel, Delicious in their Diet. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 448 A delicious mouth or palate. b. Involving (excessive) gratification of the senses; indulgent; (also) inducing the desire for sensual pleasures. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective] > luxurious (of things) delicatec1400 delicious?c1450 fleshpot1535 lascivious1589 nice1621 mollitious1629 luxurious1650 luxuriant1671 voluptuous1816 de luxe1819 plushy1884 plush1890 ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 54 (MED) The flesshe is tempted by delicious metes and drinkes, the whiche bene letteres and kindelers of the brondes of lecherye. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) ix. §6. 31 The folk of the deuels cites is deliciouse affecciouns of flescly lust. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Fasting i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 280 An abstinence..from all delicious pleasures and delectations worldly. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 22 Forsaking the delicious lives of the effeminate Affricans. 1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 339 The habitual Intemperance which is too commonly annexed to festival and delicious Tables. 3. a. Very pleasant or enjoyable; very agreeable; delightful; wonderful. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > [adjective] hightlyOE delitec1225 joyful1297 delightablec1300 delicatea1382 gladsomec1386 gladdingc1394 delightfula1400 deliciousc1400 delectablec1415 delighting?a1425 delitousa1425 ravishingc1430 joyous1475 delightsomec1484 wealthlya1500 delectary?c1500 sunny1565 sunshine1594 delighted1595 heartsome1596 joysome1616 gladdening1729 scrum1877 heartthrob1907 dilly1909 delish1915 zip-a-dee-doo-dah1945 c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 38 Þe wondres of worme and beest—Deliciouse it is to ylest. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 226 (MED) He that hath lytill fete and streyte..and more delycious to se than stronge fette, thay bene febill and feynte. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 20 Plenti of delicius rivers, pleasauntlie wateringe there feldes. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 125 [Guy's Cliff] a most delicious place, so that a Man in many Miles Riding cannot meet so much variety, as there one furlong doth afford. 1785 F. Pilon Fair Amer. ii. 30 A most delicious time to take a walk I must confess, when it's as dark as pitch, and blows a perfect hurricane. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss II. iv. ii. 162 The poor lad brought his first quarter's money, with a delicious sense of achievement, and gave it to his father. 1906 R. W. Chambers Fighting Chance 145 To breakfast all alone was delicious..to loiter over cream-jug and cereal. 2008 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 28 Dec. (MS2 ed.) 16 A country ballad featuring a languidly powerful vocal on top of a delicious mixture of acoustic, electronic and orchestral instruments. b. Very amusing or entertaining. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > comical > intensely delicious1642 rich1675 killing1844 hysterically funny1889 hilarious1925 laugh-out-loud1970 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 43 Delicious! he had that whole bevie at command whether in morrice or at May pole. Whilest I..left so impoverisht of what to say, as to turne my Liturgy into my Ladies Psalter. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. viii. 362 The strut of the foremost cock, lifting one leg at right angles to the other, is delicious. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. vi. 128 A delicious joke it would have been. 1963 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 27 Feb. 4/2 The Legislature has been called again to the rescue, to save the system from itself. What delicious irony! 2019 Express (Nexis) 22 Feb. 32 There are more twists than a 1960s dance marathon in this unsettling tale, along with plenty of Herron's delicious dark humour. B. n. With capital initial. Any of various cultivated varieties of dessert apple originating in the United States, most of which belong to a group developed from a single original tree and typically having slightly elongated fruits with shiny red skins and crisp flesh. Frequently with distinguishing word. Also as a modifier.Golden Delicious, Red Delicious: see the first element.Golden Delicious is genetically unrelated to the red-skinned varieties of Delicious. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of costardc1390 bitter-sweet1393 Queening?1435 richardine?1435 blaundrellc1440 pear apple1440 tuberc1440 quarrendenc1450 birtle1483 deusan1570 apple-john1572 Richard1572 lording1573 greening1577 queen apple1579 peeler1580 darling1584 doucin1584 golding1589 puffin1589 lady's longing1591 bitter-sweeting1597 pearmain1597 paradise apple1598 garden globe1600 gastlet1600 leather-coat1600 maligar1600 pome-paradise1601 French pippin1629 gillyflower1629 king apple1635 lady apple1651 golden pippin1654 goldling1655 puff1655 cardinal1658 green fillet1662 chestnut1664 cinnamon apple1664 fenouil1664 go-no-further1664 Westbury apple1664 seek-no-farther1670 nonsuch1676 calville1691 passe-pomme1691 fennel apple1699 queen1699 genet1706 fig-apple1707 oaken pin1707 nonpareil1726 costing1731 monstrous reinette1731 Newtown pippin1760 Ribston1782 Rhode Island greening1795 oslin1801 fall pippin1803 monstrous pippin1817 Newtown Spitzenburg1817 Gravenstein1821 Red Astrachan1822 Tolman sweet1822 grange apple1823 orange pippin1823 Baldwin1826 Sturmer Pippin1831 Newtowner1846 Northern Spy1847 Blenheim Orange1860 Cox1860 McIntosh Red1876 Worcester1877 raspberry apple1894 delicious1898 Laxton's Superb1920 Macoun1924 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of costardc1390 bitter-sweet1393 pippin?1435 pomewater?1435 Queening?1435 richardine?1435 blaundrellc1440 pear apple1440 tuberc1440 quarrendenc1450 birtle1483 sweeting1530 pomeroyal1534 renneta1568 deusan1570 apple-john1572 Richard1572 lording1573 russeting1573 greening1577 queen apple1579 peeler1580 reinette1582 darling1584 doucin1584 golding1589 puffin1589 lady's longing1591 bitter-sweeting1597 pearmain1597 paradise apple1598 garden globe1600 gastlet1600 leather-coat1600 maligar1600 pomeroy1600 short-start1600 jenneting1601 pome-paradise1601 russet coat1602 John apple1604 honey apple1611 honeymeal1611 musk apple1611 short-shank1611 spice apple1611 French pippin1629 king apple1635 lady apple1651 golden pippin1654 goldling1655 puff1655 cardinal1658 renneting1658 green fillet1662 chestnut1664 cinnamon apple1664 fenouil1664 go-no-further1664 reinetting1664 Westbury apple1664 seek-no-farther1670 nonsuch1676 white-wining1676 russet1686 calville1691 fennel apple1699 queen1699 genet1706 fig-apple1707 oaken pin1707 musk1708 nonpareil1726 costing1731 monstrous reinette1731 Newtown pippin1760 Ribston1782 Rhode Island greening1795 oslin1801 wine apple1802 fall pippin1803 monstrous pippin1817 Newtown Spitzenburg1817 Gravenstein1821 Red Astrachan1822 Tolman sweet1822 grange apple1823 orange pippin1823 Baldwin1826 wine-sap1826 Jonathan1831 Sturmer Pippin1831 rusty-coat1843 Newtowner1846 Northern Spy1847 Cornish gilliflowerc1850 Blenheim Orange1860 Cox1860 nutmeg pippin1860 McIntosh Red1876 Worcester1877 raspberry apple1894 delicious1898 Laxton's Superb1920 Melba apple1928 Melba1933 Mutsu1951 Newtown1953 discovery1964 1898 Amer. Gardening 7 May 359/3 Please tell us about the new winter apples now coming to the front, the Ozark varieties, Delicious, Black Ben Davis, Commerce, Senator, etc. 1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 42 The most popular export varieties are Sturmer, Delicious, Jonathan, Granny Smith, and Cox's Orange. 2010 G. A. Akerlof & R. J. Shiller Animal Spirits (Paperback ed.) xi. 134 Hardly anyone today really likes the taste of the varietal now called Delicious. And yet these apples are ubiquitous. Compounds With present participles, forming adjectives in which delicious expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in delicious-looking, delicious-smelling, etc. ΚΠ 1797 ‘Amator Veritatis’ Chorismos Aletheias 50 If one of these delicious looking apples be touched, it instantaneously becomes most offensive sulphureous dust. 1874 I. M. Alden & I. H. Foster Mod. Prophets 282 The coffee-pot glistened while it sent up puffs of delicious smelling steam. 1909 C. S. Osborn Andean Land I. ii. 37 That strange fruit of Sumatra, the evil-smelling but delicious-tasting durian. 1950 Newport (Rhode Island) Daily News 1 Apr. 6/1 A delicious-seeming piece of chocolate. 2013 M. March Finding Colin Firth (large print ed.) xviii. 322 I'd love to treat you to dessert, perhaps a slice of that delicious-looking blackberry pie on the counter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.a1325
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