Taste · Food and eating
mouth-watering
very appetising
Mouth-watering food looks or smells so good that you want to eat it.
This vs that
The curry looked mouth-watering.
The curry was delicious.
Hear it in real life
What did you order?
The seafood pasta. It looked mouth-watering when it came out.
The smell of freshly baked bread was absolutely mouth-watering.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
Mouth-watering is a vivid, natural way to say food looks or smells extremely appetising.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: The restaurant served a mouth-water food.
Say: The restaurant served mouth-watering food.
Mouth-watering is the adjective; do not use mouth-water as an adjective.
Say it together
Whole chunks natives use with it.
mouth-watering ___
The menu was full of mouth-watering dishes.
They served a mouth-watering roast for Sunday lunch.
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about taste.
a hint of ___
There's a hint of lemon in the sauce.
it tastes like ___
It tastes like homemade soup.
Taste words
Food and eating · Taste: the words around “mouth-watering”.
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Your turn: say it out loud
That curry looks mouth-watering.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
mouth-watering
very appetising
“The smell of freshly baked bread was absolutely mouth-watering.”
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