yum-yum
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of yum-yum
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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The hybrid comes to the table with a ribbon of marinated eggplant and “pom pom” sauce, a zesty riff on Japanese yum yum sauce.
From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2019
Yum yum yum: Sometimes the best journalism is explaining what’s right before one’s eyes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2017
Like Captain Caveman, everything he sees he devours, and nearly everything is yum, yum, yum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, de biscuits was yum, yum, yum to me, but de coffee I doesn't like.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration
We had a shoe box full of eats that the girls at Camp Smile Awhile had given us and, yum, yum, those sandwiches were good.
From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)
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