Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very pleasing to the taste or smell; delicious. synonym: delicious.
- adjective Very pleasant or attractive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective very pleasing or attractive; especially, pleasing to the taste; delicious; scrumptious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective colloquial
delicious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Your cheesecake look yummy ..yummy! hope I can learn to bake it one day.
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All stuffed, filled and ready to be bathed in yummy ganache:
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I love the covers for the Nauti series and Elizabeth Amber's Lords of Satyr covers are just plain yummy!!!
Angels' Blood Countdown: Lora Leigh - Nauti Intentions ARC Nalini Singh 2009
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All stuffed, filled and ready to be bathed in yummy ganache:
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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A couple of pairs of flats in yummy colours for those days when my toes aren't ready for all the peeping, and I'll be set!
Weathering Through kittenpie 2007
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A couple of pairs of flats in yummy colours for those days when my toes aren't ready for all the peeping, and I'll be set!
Archive 2007-02-01 kittenpie 2007
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Maybe they're not tall, dark and handsome, but I say stubby, dark and yummy is much more fun to dream about.
Dark Chocolate Truffles with Fleur de Sel.. Michele 2005
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She was a devotee of rare roast beef sandwiches and red shoes, and she had a penchant for using the word yummy to describe non-food items, like a pretty scarf or a soft sweater.
Orangette 2010
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You said 'yummy' - are you sure it wasn't pizza LoL
Burritos with Wendy Teena in Toronto 2007
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Their hunger levels were about the same as students who ate the bar described as "yummy" -- meaning that eating the "healthy" food actually made them feel hungrier than if they hadn't eaten a bar at all, the researchers said.
oroboros commented on the word yummy
Yummy: typed with one finger only. See deeded, ceded and muumuu.
September 22, 2008