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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Interjection
yum
- Indicating delight at the flavor of food.
Yum! This apple pie is delicious!
Translations
indicating delight at the flavor of food
Adjective
yum (not comparable)
- (informal) Delicious.
- Antonym: yuck
This apple pie is yum!
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Etymology 2
Proper noun
yum
- (computing) Acronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux.
Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.
See also
Anagrams
Bisu
Pronunciation
Noun
yum (Thai spelling ยูม)
- house.
Gitua
Noun
yum
- water
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Yucatec Maya
Noun
yum
- father
- lord
- (religion, mythology) a god
- Yum K’áax ("Lord of the Forest": a Mayan god of the forest and chocolate)
- Yum Cháak ("Lord of Rain": Chaac, a Mayan rain god)