scrummy
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of scrummy
First recorded in 1910–15; scrum(ptious) + -y 1
Example Sentences
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Tonight’s both look scrummy, with Real Madrid visiting Atalanta and our focus very much on Manchester City’s trip to Mönchengladbach Budapest in search of a logic-defying 19th successive victory.
From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2021
I make a citrus-juice caramel sauce that is truly scrummy, as Mary Berry likes to say, though the flavor’s more Jolly Rancher than Sugar Daddy.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2019
Just as things seem to click into place for Cat — she speaks up in a meeting, she meets a scrummy man, she’s asked to join a lunchtime drinks clique — the fates intervene.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2017
And how they raised barns and washed in bowls and had really scrummy furniture, yeah?
From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2013
“Do I detect a scrummy hint of cumin?”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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