Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-GUST', n. [Fr. degoût; de, dis, and goût, taste, L. gustus.]

1. Disrelish; distaste; aversion to the taste of food or drink; an unpleasant sensation excited in the organs of taste by something disagreeable, and when extreme, producing lothing or nausea.
2. Dislike; aversion; an unpleasant sensation in the mind excited by something offensive in the manners, conduct, language or opinions of others. Thus, obscenity in language and clownishness in behavior excite disgust.