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Scrumptious

//ˈskɹʌm(p)ʃəs// adj, slang

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Adjective

1
Of food: delectable, delicious. informal
"What a scrumptious treat!"
2
Of a person or thing: excellent, wonderful; also, very aesthetically pleasing or attractive; good enough to eat. informal
"[…] I came here to have a wink at the fash'nables—hang me, if ever I see such a scrumptious lot."
3
Fastidious, picky. informal, obsolete, rare
4
Very small; tiny. informal, obsolete, rare

Adjective

1
extremely pleasing to the sense of taste wordnet

Etymology

Probably from scrimp (“to put on short allowance, limit, straiten; to be frugal”) + -ious (suffix forming adjectives denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (usually an abundance)), possibly modelled after scrimption (“small portion, little bit, scrap”). Douglas Harper instead derives the word from sumptuous. As the early cites in British English have a clearly different sense from the early cites in American English, only to merge together later, it may be that there were originally two unrelated words.

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