bittersweet

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bittersweet

surullinen, masentunut, surumielinen, haikea, katkeransuloinen, herkullinen, maukas, hyvän makuinen, katkera ja makea, katkeranmakea, makeahko, amerikankelasköynnös, Celastrus scandens, köynnöskasvi, köynnös.

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bittersweet (englanti > suomi)

1. katkeransuloinen

2. kelasköynnös

3. punakoiso

bittersweet englanniksi

1. Both bitter and sweet.

2. 2016, Kenneth Goh, "Roll over, chocolate lava cakes — here come lava mooncakes," (w), 21 August, 2016, http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/food/liquid-goodness

The dark green mooncake is loaded with matcha-infused salted egg yolk custard, which gives a bittersweet taste.

3. Expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure.

4. 1749, (w), (w), Chapter III, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6593/6593-h/6593-h.htm

(..) sensations of this kind, however delicious, are, at their first recognition, of a very tumultuous nature, and have very little of the opiate in them. They were, moreover, in the present case, embittered with certain circumstances, which being mixed with sweeter ingredients, tended altogether to compose a draught that might be termed bitter-sweet (..)

5. 1898, (w), "Three Sunsets" in Three Sunsets and Other Poems, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35497/35497-h/35497-h.htm

He sat beside the busy street,

There, where he last had seen her face:

And thronging memories, bitter-sweet,

Seemed yet to haunt the ancient place:

The break-up was very bittersweet; they both hurt to end it, but were glad it was over.

6. Of bittersweet color.

7. bittersweetness Bittersweetness.

8. 1941, (w), (w), Chapter 18, http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131h.html

I had once before visited these three villages, Skedans, Tanoo and Cumshewa. The bitter-sweet of their overwhelming loneliness created a longing to return to them.

9. A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruits that open to reveal red seeds.

10. 1935, (w), Spring Came on Forever, Chapter 43, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500651.txt

Over by the creek-bed scarlet-flamed sumac shouldered the silver-green of the willows, and orange-colored bittersweet crept through the tangle of wild plums.

11. The (vern), Solanum dulcamara.

12. A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.

13. 1887, (w), (w), Chapter 6, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/482/482-h/482-h.htm

"They had a good crop of bitter-sweets; they couldn't grind them all" (nodding towards an orchard where some heaps of apples had been left lying ever since the ingathering).

14. Any variety of clam in the family Glycymerididae

15. An orange color.

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