scrummy and delicious
- adjective
- UK
- 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
488
1.0
Very pleasant to taste
184
1.0
Food or drink with a pleasant flavor that people enjoy
107
6.1
Very tasty and pleasant to eat
16
3.7
Very tasty and pleasant to eat
13
5.1
Very pleasant to taste, especially of food or drink
9
4.3
Having a very rich, sweet taste or smell that feels pleasant
8
8.8
Very tasty and pleasant to eat
4
3.2
So good in smell or look that you want to eat it
1
3.2
Food or drink that is full of flavor and very filling
1
3.0
A food or drink with a nice taste that people enjoy
Tastes very good and makes you want more
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'.