savoury

«savoury» in Mova's school dictionary: salty or spicy, not sweet, like cheese, crisps, pies or soup — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (savoury — UK; savory — US); noun (a savoury, savouries — UK)

meaning for a pupil

1) Savoury food is salty or spicy, not sweet, like cheese, crisps, pies or soup. tree →

2) A savoury (UK) is a small salty snack. tree →

3) «Not very savoury» describes something or someone not nice or not respectable. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking and food lessons, dishes are sorted into sweet and savoury. Taste words in science: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savoury (umami). Phrases: «sweet or savoury?», «savoury snacks», «a savoury pie», «unsavoury character».

examples

• Would you like a sweet or a savoury pancake? tree →
• Cheese scones are savoury. tree →
• Crisps and nuts are savoury snacks. tree →
• The party had savoury food first, then cake. tree →
• This pie is savoury — it has chicken in it. tree →
• He was an unsavoury character, so we stayed away. tree →
• ‘I declare I smell a savoury dinner.’ tree →

note

UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand spelling «savoury»; US spelling «savory». Opposite of sweet (in food). «Unsavoury» = unpleasant or not honest.

In the corpora

• Taste buds for sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami) are found all over the tongue.
• The tongue can sense sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami).
• Bring me venison, and make me savoury food, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
• And she gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «savoury» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.