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Webster 1913 Edition


Toothsome

Tooth′some

,
Adj.
Grateful to the taste; palatable.
Tooth′some-ly
,
adv.
Tooth′some-ness
,
Noun.
Though less
toothsome
to me, they were more wholesome for me.
Fuller.

Webster 1828 Edition


Toothsome

TOOTH'SOME

,
Adj.
Palatable; grateful to the taste.

Definition 2024


toothsome

toothsome

English

Adjective

toothsome (comparative more toothsome, superlative most toothsome)

  1. Delicious.
    • 1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
      "It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls, how many bites each girl would have.
  2. Sexually attractive.
    • 1989, David John Cawdell Irving, Göring: a biography
      In 1919 he had been waiting at a bus stop, en route to his initiation as a Freemason: a toothsome blonde had crossed his path, and he had stalked off after her instead.