Toothsome vs Exquisite - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between toothsome and exquisite

is that toothsome is delicious while exquisite is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

As a noun exquisite is

fop, dandy.

toothsome

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Delicious.

* 1908:

"It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome , raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls, how many bites each girl would have.

Sexually attractive.

* 1989 , David John Cawdell Irving, Göring: a biography

In 1919 he had been waiting at a bus stop, en route to his initiation as a Freemason: a toothsome blonde had crossed his path, and he had stalked off after her instead.

exquisite

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

(lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.

; far-fetched; abstruse.

Of special beauty or rare excellence.

Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.

Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.

*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

*:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite

Synonyms

* beautiful, delicate, discriminating

Noun

(en noun)

(rare) Fop, dandy.

* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.

So striking was his appearance that two exquisites , emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.

*:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .