scrumptious
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English
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”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈskɹʌm(p)ʃəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: scrump‧tious
Adjective
scrumptious (comparative more scrumptious, superlative most scrumptious) (originally US, informal)
- Of food: delectable, delicious.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:delicious
- Antonym: unscrumptious
- What a scrumptious treat!
- Of a person or thing: excellent, wonderful; also, very aesthetically pleasing or attractive; good enough to eat.
- 1865, George Meredith, “The Melting of the Thousand”, in Rhoda Fleming. , volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, , →OCLC, page 262:
- […] I came here to have a wink at the fash'nables—hang me, if ever I see such a scrumptious lot.
- 1989 March 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 8S, column 1:
- Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.
- (obsolete, rare)
- Fastidious, picky.
- Very small; tiny.
Derived terms
Translations
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very aesthetically pleasing or attractive — see attractive
References
- ^ “scrumptious, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2023; “scrumptious, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
- [John Camden Hotten] (1859) “SCRUMPTIOUS”, in A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, , London: John Camden Hotten, , →OCLC, page 88: “nice, particular, beautiful. Suffolk, scrumshus, stingy.”
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SCRUMPTIOUS, adj.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society, ; New York, N.Y.: G P Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 292, column 1: “mean, stingy, close-fisted.”