misflavor

English

Verb

misflavor (third-person singular simple present misflavors, present participle misflavoring, simple past and past participle misflavored)

1. Alternative form of misflavour
   • 1951, Mabel Seeley, The Stranger Beside Me, page 111:

     Through all of the three days ensuing – departures for New York were on Saturday evenings, to make the best use of working time – this pinch of bitterness misflavored his cup.

   • 1973, New York - Volume 6, page 8:

     Instead of large, jointed pieces of chicken with bones, this is cut into Chinese-type dicings, and the sauce, slick with cornstarch, seems misflavored with something like thyme and suggests Manhattan clam chowder.

   • 1982, Journal of Studies on Alcohol - Volume 43, Issues 5-8, page 427:

     However, it has been said that thiamine preparations will misflavor the beverages or cause body odor, or that they will be precipitated by tannins or destroyed by traces of SO2 (0–6 mg/l in U.S. beers) during pasteurization or shelf storage.

   • 2006, Morten C. Meilgaard, B. Thomas Carr, Sensory Evaluation Techniques, page 15:

     The table illustrates how easily a chemical standard can be misflavored by impurities.

   • 2011, E. L Alban, Dialogues of the Sleeping Mind, page 290:

     Food tastes misflavored by inopportune dining.