flavoursome

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flavour /ˈfleɪvə(r)/ (US flavor)

▶noun

• 1 the distinctive taste of a food or drink.

  ■ chiefly N. Amer. a flavouring.

• 2 a distinctive quality or atmosphere: a European flavour.

  ■ an indication of the essential character of something: the extracts give a flavour of the conversation.

• 3 a kind, variety, or sort: various flavours of firewall are evolving.

• 4 Physics a quantized property of quarks with values designated up, down, charmed, strange, top, and bottom.

▶verb give flavour to.

– phrases
flavour of the month a person or thing that is currently popular.

– derivatives
flavoured adjective,
flavourful adjective,
flavourless adjective,
flavoursome adjective.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘fragrance, aroma’): from OFr. flaor, perh. based on a blend of L. flatus ‘blowing’ and foetor ‘stench’; the -v- appears to have been introduced in ME by assoc. with savour.