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Disrelish

//dɪsˈɹɛlɪʃ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A lack of relish: distaste uncountable

    "Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant."

  2. 2
    Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness. uncountable

    "[T]hey fonldy thinking to allay / Thir appetite with guſt, inſtead of Fruit / Chewd bitter Aſhes, which th'offended taſte / With ſpattering noiſe rejected: oft they aſſayd, / Hunger and thrift conſtraining, drugd as oft, / With hatefulleſt diſreliſh writh'd thir jaws / With ſoot and cinders fill'd [...]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful. transitive

    "September 1, 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift Everybody is so concerned for the public, that all private enjoyments are lost or disrelished"

  2. 2
    To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree. transitive

    "And Eve within, due at her hour prepar'd / For dinner favourie fruits, of taſte to pleaſe / True appetite, and not diſreliſh thirſt"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From dis- + relish.

Etymology 2

From dis- + relish.

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