| 单词 | appetizer |
| 释义 | appetizer (once / 12468 pages) n An appetizer is part of a meal that's served before the main course. You might serve your dinner guests an appetizer of crab-stuffed mushrooms when they first arrive for dinner. Usually, an appetizer is a small serving of food — just a few bites — meant to be eaten before an entree, and often shared by several people. You can also call an appetizer an hors d'oeuvre. An appetizer is meant to stimulate your appetite, making you extra hungry for your meal. This is where the word comes from, literally meaning "something to whet the appetite" or "something to appetize." WORD FAMILYappetizer: appetizers+/appetiser: appetisers/appetising: appetisingly, appetisingness, unappetising/appetite: appetiser, appetising, appetites, appetitive, appetizer, appetizing/appetizing: appetizingly, appetizingness, unappetizing/unappetising: unappetisingness/unappetizing: unappetizingly, unappetizingness USAGE EXAMPLESI’ve recently discovered the green lentil azifa salad, which is a great appetizer or even a light lunch in itself. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) The photos of opulent surroundings and the descriptions of fancy appetizers suggest to me that the journalists are being played. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) For our Hanukkah menus, we prepare fried appetizers using ingredients from the lands of the Bible. Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016) n food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) Syn|Hypo|Hyper appetiser, starter antipasto a course of appetizers in an Italian meal canapean appetizer consisting usually of a thin slice of bread or toast spread with caviar or cheese or other savory food cocktailan appetizer served as a first course at a meal hors d'oeuvrea dish served as an appetizer before the main meal cruditesraw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip fruit cocktaila mixture of sliced or diced fruits crab cocktaila cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce shrimp cocktaila cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce celery stickcelery stalks cut into small sticks carrot sticka stick of carrot eaten raw stuffed mushroommushrooms stuffed with any of numerous mixtures of e.g. meats or nuts or seafood or spinach rollmopsa pickled herring filet that has been rolled or wrapped around a pickle pigs in blanketssmall frankfurters wrapped in biscuit dough and baked course part of a meal served at one time |
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