amuse-bouche
n - an appetizer
before a meal
[from French amuser amuse, gratify + bouche
mouth]
The Eskimos may know a thing or two about snow, but the
French know all about food. It's no accident so many of our culinary words come
from them. Personally, I find food far more interesting than snow. Of course, amuse-bouche
is just a fancy way to say appetizer, but after watching hours of food-porn on
TV, it feels like an everyday word to me. Even if it sounds like amuse-bush. Vaguely kinky, isn't it.
By the way, it took me forever to figure out the spelling of
coq-au-win. The pronunciation sounds like coco-van, doesn't it?
On an unrelated note, I'm flabbergasted. (Another good
word.) My book, Last Stop, that came out almost a year ago doing smashingly in
the UK Amazon store. The sales there started picking up in December, and then kept
growing. I have no idea why, but I'm very pleased about it, nonetheless.
Wow, congrats on your Amzn UK sales! :)
ReplyDeleteThis was a word I wasn't familiar with before encountering it as a book title.
I don't think I'd be brave enough to use it for a book title. Or even in a sentence.
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