misflavour

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ flavour

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈfleɪvə(ɹ)/

Verb

misflavour (third-person singular simple present misflavours, present participle misflavouring, simple past and past participle misflavoured)

1. To impair the flavour of.
   • 1976, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, page 9:

     The flavour thresholds of the 239 compounds examined varied over a range of 2 x 10¹² , and on occasion, compounds of high chemical purity (99% +) were organoleptically impure or even misflavoured.

   • 1981, Morten Christian Meilgaard, Beer Flavour, page 24:

     This means that impurities present at the ppu level can easily misflavour the compound under study.

   • 1986, Ian Douglas Morton, Alexander Joseph MacLeod, Food Flavours - Part 2, page 112:

     'Chemically pure' compounds may be strongly misflavoured by contaminants, and in some cases the threshold measured may inadvertently be that of an impurity.

Noun

misflavour (countable and uncountable, plural misflavours)

1. The state of being misflavoured.
   • 1997, Christopher G.J. Baker, Industrial Drying of Foods, page 90:

     Powders produced in those days were, compared with today's standards, of poor flowability and solubility, difficult to handle, dusty, and prone to misflavour as a result of degradation in the drying process.

   • 2010, Steven Erikson, The Tales Of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Vol 1, page 102:

     Durhang had a way of making one ravenous, sufficient to overcome the dreadful misflavours of such malodorous staples.