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English
Etymology
From yum + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
yummy (comparative yummier, superlative yummiest)
- (colloquial, lighthearted, often childish) Delicious.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:delicious
- Antonyms: (childish) yucky; see also Thesaurus:unpalatable
Derived terms
Translations
delicious
- Arabic: لَذِيذ (laḏīḏ)
- Armenian: համով (hy) (hamov), համեղ (hy) (hameġ)
- Bengali: লজিজ (bn) (lôziz), মজা (bn) (môza)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 好食 (hou2 sik6), 好味 (hou2 mei6)
- Hakka: 好食 (hó-sṳ̍t)
- Hokkien: 好食 (hó-chia̍h)
- Mandarin: 好吃 (zh) (hǎochī)
- Czech: lahodný (cs), výtečný
- Danish: lækker (da)
- Dutch: lekker (nl), heerlijk (nl)
- Esperanto: bongusta (eo)
- Finnish: nami (fi), nanna (fi)
- French: délicieux (fr) m, délicieuse (fr)
- Georgian: გემრიელი (ka) (gemrieli)
- German: lecker (de), köstlich (de), schmackhaft (de), leckerfritzig (de)
- Hebrew: טעים m (taím), ימי (he) m (yámi)
- Hungarian: fincsi (hu)
- Indonesian: enak (id)
- Italian: delizioso (it) m, deliziosa (it) f, gnam
- Japanese: 美味しい (ja) (おいしい, oishii), おいしい (ja) (oishii), 旨い (ja) (うまい, umai), うまい (ja) (umai)
- Khmer: ឆ្ងាញ់ (km) (chngañ)
- Korean: 맛있다 (ko) (masitda), 맛있는 (ko) (masinneun)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: sapidum n, sapidus m
- Malay: sedap (ms)
- Polish: pyszny (pl) m
- Portuguese: (Brazil) delicioso (pt)
- Romanian: gustos (ro)
- Russian: вку́сный (ru) (vkúsnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: њами
- Roman: njami
- Spanish: delicioso (es), rico (es)
- Swedish: smaskens (sv), smarrig (sv), mumsig (sv), smaskig (sv)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: อร่อย (th) (à-rɔ̀i)
- Tibetan: བདའ་བ (bda' ba) (of savory foods), ཟིལ་དངར (zil dngar) (of sweet foods), ཞིམ་པོ (zhim po) (of sweet or nutty foods), བྲོ་བ་ཆེན་པོ (bro ba chen po)
- Turkish: harika (tr), lezzetli (tr), leziz (tr), nefis (tr)
- Vietnamese: ngon (vi), thơm ngon, ngon miệng (vi)
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Noun
yummy (plural yummies)
- (slang) Ellipsis of yummy mummy.
2009, Leah McLaren, The Continuity Girl:The Yummies were the women who, next to the Starlets and Professional Have-It-Alls, Meredith envied most, and therefore half-despised. You could see them at the latte bars, drinking green tea smoothies, hoisting their fat-cheeked offspring from one hip to the other, comparing notes on washable diapers and baby-friendly resorts.
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