Added 10 October 2026
scrumptious
/ˈskɹʌm(p)ʃəs/ adjective
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Of food: delectable, delicious.
What a scrumptious treat!
- Of a person or thing: excellent, wonderful; also, very aesthetically pleasing or attractive; good enough to eat.
- Fastidious, picky. Very small; tiny.
Origin
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”). 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.
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