Scrumptious means deliciously good, said with delight. Absolutely scrumptious, a scrumptious cake, scrumptious food.
It is warm, informal and slightly old-fashioned, and it is one of the small set of words English keeps almost entirely for food. It sounds like what it means, which is much of why it survives. Note scrummy, the shortened form; and that the word's origin is uncertain, possibly connected to scrimp, which would make deliciousness a stretch.
1adjectivescrumptiousDeliciously good.
“Grandma's apple pie was absolutely scrumptious, and we all asked for a second piece.”
synonyms: delicious, delectable
scrumptious is a quality of deliciousness.
The origin is uncertain, possibly from scrimp with an -ious ending. Whatever the source, the word is American and nineteenth-century.
Built from
Probably from scrimp + ious, possibly modelled after scrimption (“small portion, little bit, scrap”). If that hypothesis is true, then scrumpy may be related, via roots referring to little amounts. 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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