Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express appreciation of or eagerness for a tasty food or beverage.
- interjection Used to express appreciation for something attractive or to express eagerness for a pleasurable experience.
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- interjection An expression used to indicate delight in regard to a certain food's flavor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It won't be the prettiest stuff in the world, but yum is it good.
Archive 2008-08-01 Laura 2008
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It won't be the prettiest stuff in the world, but yum is it good.
A Kheema And A Chutney Laura 2008
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LOL....and that indonesian dish..all that food..the riistaffel i think its called yum :
Off to Amsterdam Rachel 2006
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Compare, for instance, this sentence from Diego Collado's Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae Linguae, a grammar of Japanese written in Latin yum! in 1632:
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It's called yum, an acronym that will become no clearer when I tell you it stands for Yellow Dog Updater, Modified.
The Register 2008
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And I began working on a list of criteria for judgment: something a little more refined than my normal "yum" scale.
Laura Dave: In Search of America's Best Red Velvet Cake 2009
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Sadly, for me, their answers were so wide and varied as to what was most essential to an ideal Red Velvet, I began longing for the "yum" scale.
Laura Dave: In Search of America's Best Red Velvet Cake 2009
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In addition to sweet, salty, sour, and bitter we have umami--a savory taste intensifier that is the un-namable thing in many foods that makes us say "yum" and go back for seconds.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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If you're a foodie and you get off on seeing every permutation of food and cooking -- mixing, boiling, filleting, spicing, people saying "yum" every ten minutes -- definitely see this movie.
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If you're a foodie and you get off on seeing every permutation of food and cooking -- mixing, boiling, filleting, spicing, people saying "yum" every ten minutes -- definitely see this movie.
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