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palateful

palateful adjective: tasty; flavorsome.

Adjective

palateful (comparative more palateful, superlative most palateful)

  1. Tasty; flavorsome.
    • The main requisite is to brew a tasty, palateful and wholesome beer […]1904, Letters on Brewing, volume 3, page 127

Noun

palateful (plural palatefuls)

  1. (rare) A mouthful.
    • She threw a palateful of metallic noise at me: 'Do your own damn work. You're the sniffing secretary around here.'1969, Jerzy Peterkiewicz, Green Flows the Bile, page 41
    • The Count spat out a palateful of finest Dom, choking. He looked in Johan's eyes for a second, then exploded into raucous laughter.2013, Ian Thornton, The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms, page 87

Forms of palateful

Adjective
comparativemore palateful
superlativemost palateful
Noun
pluralpalatefuls

Origin of palateful

From palate + -ful.

Words formed from palateful

Questions about palateful

What does palateful mean?
Palateful means tasty; flavorsome.
What part of speech is palateful?
Palateful can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near palateful in the dictionary

  1. palate cleansers
  2. palate expander
  3. palate expanders
  4. palateable
  5. palated
  6. palateful
  7. palatefulness
  8. palatefuls
  9. palateless
  10. palatelike
  11. palates

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