a. [f. as prec. + -SOME.] Full of flavor.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xvi. (1856), 130. These little Guillemots or Auks (Uria alle, or alke), quocunque nomine gaudent, like all birds feeding on crustaceal life, they are very red in meat, juicy, fat, delicate, and flavorsome, something between a blue-wing and a Delaware rail; in a word, the perfection of good eating.
1863. Pilgrimage over Prairies, II. 273. Whether … dog mutton ain’t as flavoursome as hoss beef.
fig. 1866. Ch. & State Rev., 3 Aug., 488. Versification … lacking … that flavoursome roughness which is the almost inevitable accompaniment of vigour.
