Tantalizing vs Piquant - What's the difference?
tantalizing | piquant | Related terms |
Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
* 1851 — , Ch. 133
*:...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.
Engaging; charming.
Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating.
* 2000 , Lynn Bedford Hall, Best of Cooking in South Africa (page 2000)
* 2005 , Clifford A. Wright, Some like it hot: spicy favorites from the world's hot zones
* 2009 , Sara Engra, Katie Luber, Kimberly Toqe, The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices (page 9)
(archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.
As adjectives the difference between tantalizing and piquant
is that tantalizing is teasing; tempting, but beyond reach while piquant is engaging; charming.As a verb tantalizing
is present participle of lang=en.tantalizing
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(en adjective)Verb
(head)piquant
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(en adjective)- These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
- Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then...
- French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.