salacious = 'strongly appealing'
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Dec 7 19:14:09 UTC 2012
Or something.
Of ginger cookies in Trader Joe's slickly written holiday season ad flyer:
"That triple dose of this sharp, spicy, salacious root gives the cookies a
powerful bite."
Some years I brought up the currently popular use of "salacious" to mean
something like "entertainingly scandalous." At that time I took it for
granted that OED included the earlier pop sense "obscene" (def. 2 doesn't
do it: it's about aphrodisiacs).
But it doesn't.
JL
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