mouth-watering
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2.7
- adjective
- /ˈmaʊθˌwɔːtərɪŋ/
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apetitoso
- The chef prepared a mouth-watering feast that left everyone wanting more.
- mouth-watering recipes
- mouth-watering food
- mouth-watering dessert
Imagine your first mouth watering bite and then throw it in the trash.
- Imagine your first mouth watering bite and then throw it in the trash.
- Imagine that first mouth watering bite and then throw it in the trash.
Examples
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The burritos may be the most popular, but it's the tacos that get my mouth watering.
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Yeah, it's mouth watering and delicious.
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Man, this has got my mouth watering.
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The aromas from the kitchen were making her mouth water.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's been five years now since my last Runza, and this article made my mouth water.
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The smell of meat was mouth-watering.
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Hearing them talk about the barbecue had my mouth watering.
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Foodies can look for popular dining places offering mouth-watering special treats.
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Clowns and kids alike can't resist the mouth-watering, lip-smacking taste of Mrs. Hockenburger's Butter Cookies.
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Today's is a mouth-watering meal of memelas de calabasa (something like pumpkin crepes) with beans.
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Synonyms
106
6.1
Very tasty and pleasant to eat
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3.5
Smelling or looking so good you want to eat it
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3.2
So good in smell or look that you want to eat it
Antonyms
How Appetizing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mouth-watering comes from the simple image of mouth plus water: tasty food makes your mouth 'water', that is, 'make your mouth fill with liquid'. So when something is mouth-watering, it looks or smells so good you really want to eat it.