seasoning
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editseasoning (countable and uncountable, plural seasonings)
- (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
- 1989, Yoga Journal, number 89, page 82:
- To distinctify the seasoning, add grated fresh ginger, finely minced green chili (serrano or jalapeno), or chopped fresh herbs: cilantro, mint, thyme.
- 2024 February 1, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “MSG is the most misunderstood ingredient of the century. That’s finally changing”, in CNN[1]:
- “We use it in drinks. We use it in desserts. We use it in savory food. It’s in almost everything. Salt, sugar and MSG – I always joke that they’re the Chinese Trinity of seasonings.”
- (figurative, by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
- A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
- (archaic) An alcoholic intoxication.
- Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”
- In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
- The air drying of wood.
Synonyms
edit- (intoxication): drunkenness
Hyponyms
edit- See also Thesaurus:seasoning
Derived terms
editTranslations
editcooking ingredient
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air drying of wood
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Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English seasonyng, present participle of Middle English sesounen (“to season”), equivalent to season + -ing.
Verb
editseasoning
- present participle and gerund of season
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