All 5 Uses of
savor
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Mr Bloom ate his strips of sandwich, fresh clean bread, with relish of disgust pungent mustard, the feety savour of green cheese.†
Chpt 8savour = take great pleasure fromunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it savor.
- First sweet then savoury.†
Chpt 8 *savoury = flavorful in a delightful wayunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use savory.
- Mr Dedalus struck, whizzed, lit, puffed savoury puff after —Irish?†
Chpt 11
- Puff after stiff, a puff, strong, savoury, crackling.†
Chpt 11
- For his nutriment he shewed how he would feed himself exclusively upon a diet of savoury tubercles and fish and coneys there, the flesh of these latter prolific rodents being highly recommended for his purpose, both broiled and stewed with a blade of mace and a pod or two of capsicum chillies.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(savor) to take great pleasure from; or the pleasure or flavor enjoyed
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, savory can refer to an aroma or flavor that is not sweet, or to a specific spice of the mint family or related plants.
Even more rarely, savor can mean to have traces of -- as when Alexander Hamilton wrote "Its situation must always savor of weakness."