Relish

Definitions: Relish

Relish

Noun

1. Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment.

2. Spicy or savory condiment.

3. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.

Verb

1. Derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in; "She relished her fame and basked in her glory".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "relish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Relish

Condiment

Noun: condiment, seasoning, sauce, spice, relish, appetizer.

Desire

Mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection; propensity; willingness; liking, love, fondness, relish.

Indifference

Verb: be indifferent; Adjective: stand neuter; take no interest in; (insensibility); have no desire for;have no taste for, have no relish for; not care for; care nothing for, care nothing about; not care a straw about, not care a fig for, not care a whit about; (unimportance); not mind.

Physical Pleasure

Verb: feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips.

Pleasure

Noun: pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblectation, delectation, delection; relish, zest; gusto; (physical pleasure); satisfaction; (content); complacency.

Be pleased; with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure; n. from; take pleasure; n. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over; (physical pleasure); enjoy, relish, like; love; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of.

Savoriness

Relish, zest; appetizer.

Relish, like, smack the lips.

Taste

Noun: taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor; gout, relish; sapor, sapidity; twang, smack, smatch; aftertaste, tang.

Crosswords: Relish

Ketchup, relish, kraut, onions, chili. (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)

With relish. (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey)

I do relish these times of peril! (Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius; writing credit: John A. Davis; Steve Oedekerk)

Gentlemen's Relish (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Pickles, Chutney and Relish (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Careers for Gourmets & Others Who Relish Food, Second Edition (reference)

• Recipes to relish : good cooking & entertaining at home (reference)

• Sweet Relish (reference)

• The Family Treasury of Great Holiday Ideas: Relish Reflect On, and Remember the Joys of the Season (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Relish (reference)

• Relish the Thought (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• PowerPuff Girls Relish Rampage (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• WMF Linare Oro 12-1/2-Inch Round Stainless Steel Relish Tray with 4-Section Crystal Insert (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But he did not relish the hash for the mention of Clongowes had coated his palate with a scum of disgust.

He ate without relish.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "relish": give relish to a dish ♦ have no relish for ♦ indian relish ♦ pickle relish ♦ relish doing smth. ♦ relish of smth. ♦ relish to doing ♦ with relish. Additional references.

Albanian

shijoj (enjoy, rejoice, savor, savour, taste), shije (Flavor, flavour, gusto, likes, liking, palate, sapidity, sapor, savor, savour, smack, taste), salcë (dip, dressing, flavoring, flavouring, sauce), pëlqej (affect, approve, enjoy, fancy, Favor, favour, like, love, please, take to), mëlmesë, më shijon, lezet (delicacy, handsomeness, prettiness, propriety, suitability, tact, zest), kënaqësi (amenity, content, delectation, delight, enjoyment, feast, fun, gladness, gratification, jocundity, kick, pleasure, satisfaction, treat), erëza (condiment, herb, kitchen herbs, seasoning), endje (divagation, fabric, meanders, roam, vagabondage, vagabondism, vagrancy, weave, weaving). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تزوق, ‏شهية (appetite, zest), ‏إستمتاع (enjoyment, fruition, gust, gusto, spree), ‏إستمتع (enjoy, entertain, gratify, hug, reload, revel, slaver over), ‏جازبية, ‏طعم (diet, engraft, feed, fill, implant, inlay, inoculate, keep, nourish, savor, savour, taste, transplant, troll), ‏بهار (condiment, seasoning, spice), ‏تبل (flavor, flavour, salt, spice), ‏مقبل (coming, future), ‏توابل (flavor, flavoring, flavour, flavouring, mace, seasoning), ‏تلذذ (regale, zest), ‏نكهة (aroma, flavor, flavour, race, savor, savour, smack, taste), ‏نكهة لذيذة, ‏مزاق, ‏متعة (delight, enjoyment, entertainment, gratification, lustiness, pleasure, treat), ‏سحر (attractiveness, bedevil, bewitch, bewitchment, catch, charm, conjure, diablerie, enamor, enamour, enchantment, fascinate, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, infatuation, loveliness, magic, magnetize, matinee, mesmerize, necromancy, overlook, pleasantness, prestige, quaintness, ravishment, smite, sorcery, spell, spellbind, temptation, weirdness, witch, witchcraft, witchery, wiz, wizardry, zest). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мезе (appetizer), имам аромат, имам вкус (smack), пия с удоволствие, подправка (alloy, condiment, counterfeit, doctor, flavoring, flavouring, forgery, herb, imitation, sauce, seasoning, spice), подтик (drive, fillip, goad, hypo, impulse, incentive, inducement, prompting, propulsion, push, sanction, spur, stimulus, urge, whet), придавам аромат на (savor, savour), придавам вкус на (flavour, savor, savour, tincture), привлекателност (allure, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, congeniality, desirability, glamor, glamour, pizzazz, prettiness, seduction, sightliness, solicitation), приятен вкус (flavour, sapidity), приятно ми е (be glad, joy, please), апетит (appetite, belly, stomach), действувам на вкуса, малко количество (bit, dab, dash, dollop, dreg, dribblet, drop, jot, modicum, nibble, pennyworth, scantling, smatter, soupcon, sprinkling, thimbleful, tot, trickle), стимул (brace, goad, impetus, impulse, inducement, oestrum, oestrus, propulsion, push, savor, savour, spur, stimulant, stimulus), напомням (admonish, partake, recall, remind, smack), наслада (complacence, delight, enjoyment, pleasance, pleasure, treat, unction), охота (appetite, desire, readiness, willingness, zest), вкус (choice, discernment, fancy, flavour, inclination, liking, palate, penchant, sapor, savor, savour, smack, stomach, taste, tincture, tinge), харесвам (affect, cotton, dig, fancy, like, take a fancy to), следа (footprint, ghost, odor, odour, print, rag, relic, remnant, rudiment, savor, savour, scar, scent, scintilla, shadow, show, shred, sign, spice, tang, touch, trace, track, trail, train, trait, vestige, whiff), ям с удоволствие, сос (dressing, liquor, sauce, vinaigrette), склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, bias, disposition, fancy, fondness, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), удоволствие (amusement, delectation, delight, enjoyment, gratification, gusto, joy, kick, luxury, pleasance, pleasure, satisfaction, sport), увлечение (abandon, abandonment, fire, flame, gusto, mustard, penchant, transport, vehemence, zeal, zest), аромат (aroma, fragrance, nose, odor, odour, perfume, sapor, savor, savour, scent, smell). (various references)

Chinese 

美味 (delicious). (various references)

Czech

rozkoš (delight, pleasure), záliba (fondness, hobby, indulgence, liking, predilection, preference, speciality, specialty, strain, taste), slast (delight), pochutnat si, pochoutka (dainty, delicacy), požitek (delight, enjoyment, indulgence, pleasure, thrill, treat), libovat si (indulge, take pleasure, wallow), líbit se (attract, enjoy, like, love, please, pleasure), aróma (aroma, fragrance, scent, smell). (various references)

Dutch

snoepen. (various references)

Esperanto

frandi. (various references)

Faeroese

sleikja (lick), njóta (delight in, enjoy). (various references)

Farsi 

مزه اوردن , مزه (Flavor, Gusto, Savor, Smack, Taste, Zest), چاشنی (Condiment, Detonator, Flavor, Primer, Sauce), لذت بردن از (Joy), طعم (Flavor, Gusto, Odor, Palate, Savor, Smack, Taste), ذوق (Goo, Gusto, Penchant, Taste, Verve, Zeal), ذاءقه (Palate), خوش مزه کردن (Flavor), اشتها (Appetite, Stomach), رغبت (Goo, Propensity, Zest), بارغبت خوردن . (various references)

Finnish

herkutella (eat well, feast upon). (various references)

French

savourer, se délecter (revel). (various references)

German

genießen (delight in, drink, eat, enjoy, feed, lap up, savor, savour, soak up, to enjoy, to relish, to savor). (various references)

Greek 

καρύκευμα (condiment, flavoring, flavouring, seasoning, spice), νοστιμιά (spiciness), νοστιμάδα (daintiness, delicacy, lusciousness, palatability, palatableness, piquancy, raciness, savoriness, spiciness, toothsomeness, zest), νοστιμίζω (season), εντρυφώ (delight, indulge, luxuriate), λίχνευμα (tidbit, titbit), απολαύω. (various references)

Hebrew 

מתיק�" (candy, sweet, sweetmeat), מטעם (dainty, delicacy, delicatessen), לפתן (compote, dessert, fruit salad, pudding, sweet), ל�"תע� �' (delight, enjoy, indulge), ל�"� ות (benefit, enjoy, please, take pleasure in), תבלין (condiment, flavoring, flavour, flavouring, seasoning, spice, zest), תבול (flavouring, sauce, seasoning, spicing), חשק (delight, desire, eagerness, gusto, longing, lust, penchant, zeal, zest), �"� א�" (boon, enjoyment, entertainment, pleasure), טעם מיוח�", טעם � עים. (various references)

Hungarian

étvágy (appetite, godown, stomach, twist), gusztus (gusto), fűszer (condiment, herb, sauce, savour, spice), ízletesség (sapidity, savouriness), íz (aroma, flavor, flavour, gust, salt, savor, savour, say, smack, spice, taste). (various references)

Indonesian

menikmatkan (enjoy to the fullest, relish something). (various references)

Italian

sapore (drowsiness, Flavor, flavour, gusto, savor, savour, somnolence, spice, taste), salsa (curry, dip, dressing, gravy, sauce), il piacere (delectation, delight, enjoyment, Favor, favour, gusto, kindness, pleasure, treat, will), gusto (acceptance, enjoyment, fancy, Flavor, flavour, gusto, kick, liking, palatability, palate, savor, savour, sense of taste, smack, spice, taste, tastiness, zest), gustare (enjoy, savor, savour, taste), condimento (condiment, dressing, dressings, flavoring, flavouring, sauce, seasoning), attrattiva (allurement, alluringness, attraction, attractiveness, charm, charmingness, showplace), assaporare (mouthwash, savor, savour, to mouthwash). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

賞味 (appreciation, gusto), 玩味 (appreciation), �'�み物 , 旨 (instructions, principle, purport, show a liking for, thinking, will). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

が�"み (air or style of disinterestedness, appreciation, taste, the flavor of Zen, thinking over carefully), しょうみ (appreciation, gusto, net), つまみもの (drinking snack), し (arbitrariness, below, calling card, city, civil service, death, decease, document, extravagance, four, luxury, magazine, master, next, official, offspring, one's mentor, order, poem, pride, recollect, records, remember, selfishness, sequence, show a liking for, teacher, the Reverend, times, verse of poetry). (various references)

Manx

oanlyn, miandys (aperitif, appetency, appetiser), blasstyn (savour, taste), blasstey (sample, savour), aunlyn (condiment, sauce, savoury). (various references)

Pig Latin

elishray

Polish

łakomić się. (various references)

Portuguese

saborear (mouthwash, savor, savour, taste, to mouthwash). (various references)

Romanian

gusta (enjoy, experience, feel, sip, taste, try, undergo), aperitiv (aperitif, appetizer, bitters, collation, snack, stomachic, whet), aromã (aroma, balm, Flavor, flavoring, flavour, flavouring, fragrance, nose, perfume, racy flavor, racy flavour, scent, smack, taste), chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, blow out, booze, bust, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish), condiment (condiment, Flavor, flavoring, flavour, flavouring, sauce, seasoning, spice), condimenta (Flavor, flavour, pepper, savor, savour, season, spice), da gust (add zest to, savor, savour), degusta (degust, sample, taste), deliciu, înclinaţie (addiction, aptness, disposition, grain, hade, inclination, incline, individuality, lean, leaning, mind, notion, partiality, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, set, squint, taste, tendency, turn, twist, vein, vocation), gust (desire, disposition, Flavor, flavour, gust, gusto, liking, palate, savor, savour, smack, taste, zest), vrajã (allurement, charm, enchantment, glamor, glamour, incantation, spell, witchery), gustare (collation, gustation, lunch, refection, refreshment, snack, tasting, tuck in), mirodenie (Flavor, flavoring, flavour, flavouring, spice, zest), mulţumire (content, contentedness, contentment, easiness, gratification, gratitude, legion, recompense, reward, satisfaction, thank, thanks), poftã (appetence, appetency, appetite, desire for, mind, stomach, wish), pofti la, satisfacţie (amends, complacency, contentment, gratification, reparation, satisfaction), savura (enjoy, taste), se desfãta (feast), vocaţie (calling, vocation), farmec (allurement, amenity, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, delight, enchantment, endearment, enticement, fascination, glamor, glamour, grace, loveliness, lure, salt, seduction, sex appeal, spell, spicery, witchery). (various references)

Russian 

удовольствие (bang, content, delight, enjoyment, gusto, joy, kick, pleasure, real jam, treat), чуточка (dram, dribblet, lick, mite, modicum, nibble, ounce, smidgen, spot, suspicion, tiny bit), вкус (flavour, liking, palate, sapidity, sapor, savor, savour, smack, taste, tastefulness, tastiness), пристрастие (bias, leaning, partiality, partisanship, predilection), приятный вкус, привлекательность (allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, loveliness, personableness, sex appeal, winsomeness), приправа (condiment, dressing, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning), приправлять (season, spicing), получать удовольствие (derive pleasure, enjoy, enjoy it), иметь вкус (savor, savour, smack, taste). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadovoljstvo (complacence, content, contentment, delectation, delight, pleasure, satisfaction, treat, zest), začin (condiment, dressing, flavoring, flavouring, seasoning, spice), ukus (flavor, flavour, gusto, sapor, savor, savour, smack, taste), uživati (bask, delight, dig, enjoy, like, savor, take pleasure in), slast (delight, sweetness), naslađivati se (delight, feast, regale on, savor, wallow). (various references)

Spanish

tener buen apetito para, salsa (gravy, salsa, sauce), saborear (gloat over, savor, savour, taste), sabor (Flavor, flavour, gusto, sapor, savor, savour, smack, spice, spiceness, tang, taste, tastiness, treat), paladear (mouthwash, to mouthwash), gusto (fancy, favoritism, favouritism, Flavor, flavour, liking, pleasure, savor, savour, sense of taste, taste, tastefulness, treat, zest, zing), gustar de (have a taste for, take pleasure in), entusiasmo (Ardor, ardour, ebullience, ebulliency, enthusiasm, gusto, light, liveliness, warmth, zeal, zest), dejo (accent, aftertaste, emptyings, suspicion, taste, tinge, trace), condimento (condiment, Flavor, flavoring, flavour, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning), apetito (appetite), apetencia (acceptance, appetence, appetency, appetite, craving, desire, hunger, palatability, tastiness), afición (addiction, avocation, fancy, fondness, hobby, liking, love, penchant, rave, taste). (various references)

Swedish

smak (fancy, flavor, flavour, gusto, palate, partiality, sapor, savor, savour, taste), njuta av (enjoy, revel, savor, savour). (various references)

Turkish

iştah (appetence, appetency, appetite, belly, desire, inner man, lustiness, stomach), ağız tadı (enjoyment, gusto, palate), beğenmek (applaud, appreciate, approve, care, decide on, decide up, enjoy, like), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, sense, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist), haz (delight, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, gratification, gusto, indulgence, joy, pleasure, rejoicing), heves (alacrity, ambition, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, brio, cult, desire, eagerness, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fit, freak, furor, furore, grace, inclination, itch, keenness, maggot, nine days' wonder, notion, stomach, studiousness, whim, whimsey, whimsy, zeal), hoş kokmak, çeşni (flavour, garnish, medley, offflavour, seasoning, spice, taste, zest), hoşlanmak (affect, be attracted, be partial to, be pleased with, be taken by, be taken with, care, click, delight, dig, enjoy, fancy, have a liking for smb., like, take a fancy to, take a shine to smb., take to), zevkle yemek (tuck into), istek (adjuration, alacrity, appetite, aspiration, avidity, bent, claim, demand, desire, device, devoutness, disposition, earnestness, enthusiasm, grace, hunger, instance, intentness, mind, pleasure, propensity, readiness, request, requirement, requisition, stomach, studiousness, suit, urge, want, will, wish, zeal), lezzet (daintiness, Flavor, flavour, gladness, good taste, joy, lusciousness, salt, sapidity, sauce, savor, savoriness, savour, savouriness, smack, taste, zest), mis gibi kokmak (be fragrant with), tadına varmak (discuss, enjoy), tadını çıkarmak (bask, discuss, drink in, enjoy, feast, make the most of it, savor, savour), tat (Flavor, flavour, gustatory, sapidity, sauce, savor, savoriness, savour, savouriness, sweet, taste, zest), zevk (bang, delectation, delight, enjoyment, fancy, good taste, gratification, gusto, indulgence, kick, like, liking, luxury, meat, pleasure, savor, savour, sweet, taste, treat), hoş tat vermek. (various references)

Ukranian 

надавати при�"много смаку, задоволення (amusement, bang, content, contentment, delectation, delight, enjoyment, gratification, gusto, kick, picnic, pleasure, repletion, satisfaction, treat), при�"мний смак (nuttiness, sapidity), привабливість (affinity, amiability, appeal, appealingness, attraction, attractiveness, beauty, buxomness, charm, grace, loveliness, magnetism, pull), діставати задоволення (love). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vẻ hấp dẫn, sự thú vị (delectation, niceness, pleasantness), ý vị sự hứng thú, điều gây hứng thú. (various references)

Welsh

blas (taste), awch (appetite, ardor, avidity, edge, zest). (various references)

pulmentarium. (various references)

reles. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "relish": relishable, relished, relishes, relishing. (additional references)

Words ending with "relish": disrelish. (additional references)

Words containing "relish": disrelished, disrelishes, disrelishing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Relish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Belisha, breslich, dewlish, erish, Krilich, rapish, redish, reelise, reflesh, relah, relesh, relist, rellish, relsih, relus, renish, Riklis, rilis, ritish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hirsel, hirsle.

-1 letter: heils, heirs, herls, hires, lehrs, liers, riels, riles, shiel, shier, shire, slier.

-2 letters: elhi, heil, heir, herl, hers, hies, hire, ires, isle, lehr, leis, lier, lies, lire, reis, resh, riel, rile, rise, shri, sire.

-3 letters: els, ers, her, hes, hie, his, ire, lei, lie, lis, rei, res, sei, sel, ser, she, sir, sri.

+1 letter: hailers, hillers, hirples, hirsels, hirsled, hirsles, hurlies, shalier, shrivel, slither.

+2 letters: airholes, blithers, ceorlish, charlies, chervils, chillers, chiseler, clerkish, earlship, filchers, flashier, fleshier, hairless, harelips, hauliers, heirless, helleris, higglers, hirseled, inhalers, lavisher, lighters, liverish, luthiers, philters, philtres, plashier, plushier, polisher, rashlike, relights, relished, relishes, repolish, rushlike, schiller, schliere, shellier, shelvier, shielder, shingler, shoalier, shrieval, shrilled, shriller, shrivels, sleigher, slighter, slithers, slithery, sloshier, slushier, whirlers, whirlies, whistler.

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