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.

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  • 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

[From yum.]

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Examples

  • Your cheesecake look yummy ..yummy! hope I can learn to bake it one day.

    Creamy Mascarpone Cheesecake | Baking Bites 2006

  • All stuffed, filled and ready to be bathed in yummy ganache:

    Ferrero Rocher Cupcakes 2009

  • 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

  • All stuffed, filled and ready to be bathed in yummy ganache:

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • You said 'yummy' - are you sure it wasn't pizza LoL

    Burritos with Wendy Teena in Toronto 2007

  • 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.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

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  • Yummy: typed with one finger only. See deeded, ceded and muumuu.

    September 22, 2008