delicious [ de·lici·ous ]
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1. Highly pleasant to the taste.
delicious home-baked brown bread
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2. Delightful.
Which would make that irony even more delicious.
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1. Middle English (also in the sense ‘characterized by sensuous indulgence’): via Old French from late Latin deliciosus, from Latin deliciae (plural) ‘delight, pleasure’.

