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There’s a word for it

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pregustator


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PRONUNCIATION:

(pri-GUHS-tay-tuhr)

MEANING:

noun: A person whose job is to taste food or drink before it’s served.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin pre- (before) + gustare (to taste). Ultimately from the Indo-European root geus- (to taste or choose), which also gave us choice, choose, gusto, ragout, and disgust. Earliest documented use: 1670.

USAGE:

“When poison was often secreted in meats and drinks and was much oftener feared, a pregustator, or a foretaster, was the most important servant in all great households.”
Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters; Vol 13; 1900.

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