Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slang Very pleasing to the taste or smell; delicious. See Synonyms at delicious.
- adj. Slang Delightful; delicious.
Wiktionary
- adj. colloquial delicious.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. very pleasing or attractive; especially, pleasing to the taste; delicious; scrumptious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
Etymologies
- From yum, the sound of smacking the lips. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Your cheesecake look yummy ..yummy! hope I can learn to bake it one day.”
“I love the covers for the Nauti series and Elizabeth Amber's Lords of Satyr covers are just plain yummy!!!”
“All stuffed, filled and ready to be bathed in yummy ganache:”
“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!”
“Maybe they're not tall, dark and handsome, but I say stubby, dark and yummy is much more fun to dream about.”
“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.”
“You said 'yummy' - are you sure it wasn't pizza LoL”
“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.”
“I confess I'm totally anti all the pressure on mums to look 'yummy' - especially those who've only recently had their baby.”
“He measured 21 inches and weighed eight pounds and eight ounces on arrival and is, reportedly, "yummy" - at least according to his mom, Jennifer Walzer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yummy’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Words to Describe The Taste of Food
This list seeks to address a pet annoyance of mine. It occurs when chefs, food critics and travel writers, usually on television, taste something that looks either delicious or unusual and then in...
unctuous, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, piquant, savory, tangy, luscious, delectable, brackish and 66 more...
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You are so GOOD LOOKING!
Words about looking good
a dish, dishy, snazzy, styling, looker, handsome, beautiful, delicious, dessert, yummy, tantalizing, hormone hunk and 55 more...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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Food words that sound sexy
I am taking my lead from the 100 mile diet bloggers in Vancouver, whose guidelines for eating locally conclude with the observation that most things said about food are equally applicable to sex: t...
unctuous, voluptuous, sensuous, salty, lick, comforting, yummy, goddess, scrape, peeled, conch, rise and 12 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Favorites
ostensibly, surreptitiously, seriously, apparently, vociferous, guitar, asphalt, glee, glitter, fascinating, asynchronous, cunt and 128 more...
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aliko's Words
deli, turkey, bodrum, deniz, sunny, seks, tatil, hava, zeeman, captain, kapitein, kaptan and 256 more...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?
Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.
<...racecar, start, create, desert, dessert, secret, secrete, sweet, tresses, poppy, puppy, homonym and 141 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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Ellynguistix
First 50 words for miss Elise, before age 2. Today's date is 6/18/07.
Top ten most commonly said words are, in order: (1) Ow (2) Nooooo (3) Kitty (4) Mama (5) Monkey (6) Up (6) Food (7...mama, kitty, meow, monkey, ducky, quack, doggie, arf, eat, food, door, oh god and 38 more...
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Cute
yummy, drownded, tummy, tigger, belly button, spöka, squeak, wheedle, snuggle, paw, squishy, fuzzy and 2 more...
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ogrow's list
Words for my job
fresh, local, organic, grow, osage, dirt, water, csa, plants, seeds, sun, greenhouse and 19 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for yummy.
oroboros Yummy: typed with one finger only. See deeded, ceded and muumuu. Sep 22, 2008