disrelish

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ relish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɹɛlɪʃ/

Noun

disrelish (uncountable)

1. A lack of relish: distaste
   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.‎^[1]:

     Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant.

   • 1818, John Franklin, The Journey to the Polar Sea‎^[2]:

     The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish.

   • Burke

     Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42

     […] that those eyes may glow

     With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn

     Peers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold.

   • 1872, J. Fenimore Cooper, The Bravo‎^[3]:

     "I have no other malice against the race, Signore, than the wholesome disrelish of a Christian.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 685:

     They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish, under the belief that they were economising.

2. Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.

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Verb

disrelish (third-person singular simple present disrelishes, present participle disrelishing, simple past and past participle disrelished)

1. (transitive) To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.

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2. (transitive) To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.

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