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seasoning

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Etymology 1

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From season +‎ -ing.

Noun

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seasoning (countable and uncountable, plural seasonings)

  1. (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
    • 1989, Yoga Journal, number 89, page 82:
      To distinctify the seasoning, add grated fresh ginger, finely minced green chili (serrano or jalapeno), or chopped fresh herbs: cilantro, mint, thyme.
    • 2024 February 1, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “MSG is the most misunderstood ingredient of the century. That’s finally changing”, in CNN‎[1]:
      “We use it in drinks. We use it in desserts. We use it in savory food. It’s in almost everything. Salt, sugar and MSG – I always joke that they’re the Chinese Trinity of seasonings.”
  2. (figurative, by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
  3. A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
  4. (archaic) An alcoholic intoxication.
    Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”
  5. In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
  6. The air drying of wood.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English seasonyng, present participle of Middle English sesounen (“to season”), equivalent to season +‎ -ing.

Verb

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seasoning

  1. present participle and gerund of season

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