scrummy and delicious
- adjective
- UK
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delicioso
- The chocolate cake was scrummy and delicious, and everyone asked for seconds.
Examples
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Her homemade scones turned out scrummy and delicious with strawberry jam and cream.
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Everything at that bakery is scrummy and delicious, from the pastries to the sandwiches.
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This cake is scrummy and delicious!
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The pasta was scrummy and delicious.
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Everything at that bakery is scrummy and delicious, from the pastries to the sandwiches.
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Her homemade scones turned out scrummy and delicious with strawberry jam and cream.
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The chocolate cake was scrummy and delicious, and everyone asked for seconds.
Synonyms
419
1.0
Very pleasant to taste
175
1.0
Food or drink with a pleasant flavor that people enjoy
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6.1
Very tasty and pleasant to eat
17
3.7
Very tasty and pleasant to eat
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4.3
Having a very rich, sweet taste or smell that feels pleasant
12
5.1
Very pleasant to taste, especially of food or drink
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8.8
Very tasty and pleasant to eat
4
3.2
So good in smell or look that you want to eat it
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3.2
Food or drink that is full of flavor and very filling
Tastes very good and makes you want more
A food or drink with a nice taste that people enjoy
Antonyms
How Delicious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a simple coordination of two adjectives ('scrummy' + 'and' + 'delicious') whose combined meaning ('very tasty') is directly compositional; the conjunction merely links synonyms. Although 'scrummy' is colloquial, its meaning is predictable from context and the known adjective 'delicious', and the coordination pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a learner who knows the constituents would understand the phrase.
Etymology
Scrummy and delicious grew from the friendly word scrummy, a short, playful form of 'scrumptious' that makes you picture someone happily tasting food, and when it is paired with delicious it just doubles that idea. So the phrase means 'very tasty'.