See Also: Salian(1)(dictionary)
Salian(2)(dictionary)
unsavoury(dictionary)
unsavoury(dictionary)

Salian(2) (iou) and unsavoury (iou)


Salian(2) (iou)



Salian noun1 & adjective1. E17.
[from late Latin Salii Salian Franks: see -IAN.]
A. noun. A member of a Frankish people who inhabited a region near the Zuyder Zee in the 4th cent. AD, and to whom the ancestors of the Merovingian dynasty belonged. E17.
b. adjective. Of or belonging to the Salians. E18.

unsavoury (iou)



unsavoury adjective. Also *unsavory. ME.
[from UN-1 + SAVOURY adjective.]
Having no taste or savour; insipid. ME-L18.
b. Having no scent. M16-E18.
a. Unpleasant or disagreeable to the taste, smell, or refined feelings; disgusting, distasteful. LME.
W. Cowper The pent-up breath of an unsav'ry throng.
b. Morally objectionable or offensive; having an unpleasant or disagreeable character. LME.
B. Webb The unsavoury element in Parliamentary life is the intense competition for the limelight.
unsavoured adjective having no savour; unsavoury: LME.
unsavourily adverb LME.
unsavouriness noun LME.