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单词 gustful
释义

gustful

English

Etymology

From gust + -ful.

Adjective

gustful (comparative more gustful, superlative most gustful)

  1. gusty
    • 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “The Holy Grail”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VI), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., [], OCLC 1066791046, page 102:
      [T]hey sat / Beneath a world-old yew-tree, darkening half / The cloisters, on a gustful April morn / That puff'd the swaying branches into smoke / Above them, []
  2. (obsolete) tasty; good-tasting
    • 1669, Kenelm Digby, The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened
      The said season being passed, there is no danger or difficulty to keep it [preserved meat] gustful all the year long.

Derived terms

  • gustfulness

Anagrams

  • gutfuls, gutsful

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gustful in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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