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Kanonathena Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

saccharine

*cough. Sometimes I get a saccharine taste in my mouth when I start talking about the new Nintendo console.

What does saccharine mean here?

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Top answer

A saccharine taste is the taste of saccharine. Saccharine is a sugar substitute. This is a figurative use.

— CalifJim

  • A saccharine taste is the taste of saccharine.
  • Saccharine is a sugar substitute.
  • This is a figurative use.
  • saccharine has come to mean overly sentimental or sickeningly "nice".
  • Google: saccharine Nintendo You will find that the two are associated in the minds of many!
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A saccharine taste is the taste of saccharine. Saccharine is a sugar substitute.
This is a figurative use. saccharine has come to mean overly sentimental or sickeningly "nice".

Google: saccharine Nintendo

You will find that the two are associated in the minds of many!

CJ
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so in this sentence it has a negative meaning right? ntendo usually cranks out games that have a juvenile-centered theme, the poster found it childish and sickening?
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Hm, perhaps
to drool
would be right in this context ...
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Yes, Kanonathena, exactly - not necessarily childish, but sickeningly sweet or cute.
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