make sb's mouth water
Definition
› If the smell or sight of food makes your mouth water, it makes you want to eat it: The smell of that bacon cooking is making my mouth water.Hungry and thirstyPleasant to eat or drink
(Definition of make sb's mouth water from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- ambrosia noun
- appetizing adjective
- cooked/done to a turn idiom
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- deliciously adverb
- filling adjective
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