salacious = 'strongly appealing'

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 7, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> Perhaps mistaken for "salubrious"?  (Ginger is thought to be
> especially beneficial.)

with echoes of "salivate" and "delicious"?

LH
>
> At 12/7/2012 02:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> 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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