Savory vs Savour - What's the difference?
savory | savour |
Tasty, attractive to the palate.
Salty or non-sweet.
Not overly sweet.
(figuratively) Morally or ethically acceptable.
A snack.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 18, author=Florence Fabricant, title=Off the Menu, work=New York Times
, passage=P*ONG On Friday the pastry chef Pichet Ong will open his own cafe, with sweets and savories served at tables and a counter. }}
Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus , grown as culinary flavourings.
The leaves of these plants used as a flavouring.
The specific taste or smell of something.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.5:
*:He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour .
A distinctive sensation.
*(Richard Baxter) (1615-1691)
*:Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savour of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?
Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
*(George Herbert) (1593-1633)
*:beyond my savour
to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
* Rev. Joseph Bellamy
to appreciate, enjoy or relish something.
As nouns the difference between savory and savour
is that savory is a snack or savory can be any of several mediterranean herbs, of the genus , grown as culinary flavourings while savour is the specific taste or smell of something.As an adjective savory
is tasty, attractive to the palate.As a verb savour is
to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.savory
English
(wikipedia savory)Alternative forms
* savoury (British)Etymology 1
From the (etyl) savoure, from savourer, from (etyl) saporare, from saporAdjective
(en adjective)- The fine restaurant presented an array of savory dishes; each was delicious.
- The mushrooms, meat, bread, rice, peanuts and potatoes were all good savory foods.
- The savory duck contrasted well with the sweet sauce.
- Readers are to be warned that quotations in this chapter contain some not so savory language.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(savories)citation
Etymology 2
(Satureja) Possibly from (etyl) saetherie, from (etyl) satureia, influenced by or via (etyl) savereieNoun
(savories)Derived terms
* summer savory * winter savorysavour
English
Alternative forms
* savor (chiefly US)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- This savours not much of distraction.
- I have rejected everything that savours of party.
- Begone, thou impudent wretch, to hell, thy proper place: thou art a despiser of my glorious majesty, and your frame of spirit savours of blasphemy.