Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A choice or dainty food; a delicacy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An article of food; a viand; more particularly, rich, luxurious, or dainty food; a delicacy; a dainty: a later form of
acate: most commonly used in the plural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun in the plural A
delicacy or item of food.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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President Obama's popularity is also galling to these same Republicans. cate
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Is this just another lie, or is he using our tax money to buy mom jeans? cate
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Thinks anything short of nationalization was screwing over the taxpayers because the “bad bank” would have to buy the toxic assets at highly inflated prices to keep the banks solvent. cate Says:
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oroboros commented on the word cate
A delicacy, a dainty.
October 26, 2008