tangy
/ˈtaŋi
/adjective (tangier, tangiest)
Having a strong, piquant flavour or smell: a tangy salad...
- What was that delicious smell, at once tangy and spicy and somehow very Italian?
- She could feel the wind blowing against her neck and smell the tangy scent of the ocean drifting on the breeze.
- Master chefs have their hands full preparing a variety of delectable dishes with zany flavours and tangy tastes.
Synonyms
sharp-flavoured, sharp, zesty, acid, acidic, tart, sour, bitter, harsh, biting, piquant, spicy, tasty, flavoursome, pungent
Derivatives
tanginess
- Some savoury recipes also use rhubarb, as its tanginess makes it an ideal accompaniment for fatty meats or oily fish.
- No dubious burger restaurants here, but elegant restaurants and diners, with plump fish, prawns and mussels doused in the taste and tanginess of the sparking Adriatic Sea.
- It was topped with two pieces of bread with melted goat cheese, for a pleasant mixture of texture and tanginess.
Rhymes
- cityship
- city shorts
- city slicker
- City Solicitor
- city state
- City Technology College
- cityward
- citywards
- city watch
- citywide
- city woman
- Ciudad Bolívar
- Ciudad del Este
- Ciudad Guayana
- Ciudad Juárez
- Ciudad Real
- Ciudad Trujillo
- Ciudad Victoria
- civet
- civic
- civically
- civic centre
- civic humanism
- civicism
- civic journalism