degust
English
Verb
degust (third-person singular simple present degusts, present participle degusting, simple past and past participle degusted)
- To taste carefully to fully appreciate something; to savour
- 1883, R.L. Stevenson, “Napa wine”, in The Silverado Squatters, Chatto and Windus, →ISBN, page 35f.:
- If wine is to withdraw its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degusting tenderly and storing reminiscences &emdash; for a bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect — if wine is to desert us, go thy ways, old Jack! Now we begin to have compunctions, and look back at the brave bottles squandered upon dinner-parties, where the guests drank grossly, discussing politics the while, and even the schoolboy "took his whack," like liquorice water.
- 2008, J. Hurt, S. Ehlers, “Introduction”, in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cheeses of the World: A Tasteful Guide to Selecting, Serving, and Enjoying Cheese, DK Publishing, →ISBN, page 27:
- This book is meant to help you along in your own quest for cheese, and I hope that you do taste the cheeses that you read about. By the time you finish this book you should have degusted a lot of wonderful cheese.
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