taste

adj

1. Deliberate misspelling of tasty.

noun

Etymology: The verb is from Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster (“to taste, touch or hit”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch or feel”), from *taxitāre, an innovated iterative form of Classical Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch, to grasp”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, which is assumed to have had the same meaning as tangere. The noun came from the verb, and the two conflated after English lost its infinitive suffix -en, though tasten was most likely already used nominatively (as a gerund), similar to Modern English tasting. Almost fully displaced native smack, from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”). Displaced English smatch, from Middle English smacchen, smecchen, from Old English smæċċan (“to taste; to smack”); displaced also Middle English buriȝen, from Old English bierġan (“to taste”).

1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.

   “He had a strange taste in his mouth.”

   “Venison has a strong taste.”

2. The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.

   “His taste was impaired by an illness.”

3. A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
4. A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

   “Dr. Parker has good taste in wine.”

   “That's very true indeed Sir Peter! after having married you I should never pretend to Taste again I allow.”

5. Personal preference; liking; predilection.

   “I have developed a taste for fine wine.”

6. A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

   “Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.”

   “Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, what do you want? / Bernard Woolley: I want to have a clear conscience. / […] / Sir Humphrey Appleby: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries (laugh track)?”

7. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

verb

Etymology: The verb is from Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster (“to taste, touch or hit”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch or feel”), from *taxitāre, an innovated iterative form of Classical Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch, to grasp”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, which is assumed to have had the same meaning as tangere. The noun came from the verb, and the two conflated after English lost its infinitive suffix -en, though tasten was most likely already used nominatively (as a gerund), similar to Modern English tasting. Almost fully displaced native smack, from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”). Displaced English smatch, from Middle English smacchen, smecchen, from Old English smæċċan (“to taste; to smack”); displaced also Middle English buriȝen, from Old English bierġan (“to taste”).

1. To sample the flavor of something orally.

   “when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine”

   “Does a bagel in New York City really taste better because of the water, or is it our desire to feel like a “real” New Yorker, even for a few minutes over breakfast, that does the trick? […] The idea that a pint of Guinness tastes best in Ireland sounds like it could be a drinker’s romantic notion – but there is science to back up the claim. […] The stats were overwhelmingly in favor of the Guinness tasting better in Ireland – suggesting that the beer doesn’t travel well or perhaps that non-Irish bartenders don’t excel at pouring it.”

2. To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.

   “The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.”

3. To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.

   “I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.”

4. To experience.

   “I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.”

   “They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.”

5. To take sparingly.

   “1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydenhttps://books.google.es/books?id=0fo_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA147&dq=%22Age+but+tastes+of+pleasures,+youth+devours%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihhoWhjrzqAhV9URUIHYdFCJw4ChDoATAAegQIBBAC#v=onepage&q=%22Age%20but%20tastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.”

6. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

   “I tasted a little of this honey.”

7. To try by the touch; to handle.

   “to taste the bow”