yummy

[ yuhm-ee ]

/ ˈyʌm i /

Informal.

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adjective, yum·mi·er, yum·mi·est.

very pleasing to the senses, especially to the taste; delicious: The waiter brought out a tray of yummy desserts.

extremely attractive or appealing.

noun, plural yum·mies.

an item of food that is particularly delicious: The bakery window was full of yummies.

anything that is extremely attractive or appealing.

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Origin of yummy

First recorded in 1925–30; yum + -y¹

Words nearby yummy

Yule log, Yuletide, Yuma, Yuman, yummo, yummy, yummy mummy, Yumpie, Yumpy, yum-yum, Yung Lo

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How to use yummy in a sentence

In the 1980s, she showed how a fungal network searches for food and then re-forms itself after it finds something yummy.
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As the warming water slowed its growth, less yummy kelp drifted into the crevices of the reefs where hungry sea urchins typically lurk.
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The plastic’s recipe also offers the microbes ingredients they find yummy.
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No dumpsters full of “yummy restaurant food” means short-term starvation, he explains.
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In recent years, away from the screen, Hurley has reinvented herself as a yummy mummy.
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Plus, sushi is yummy, and you can't blame a singer who's spent a decade shopping at Hot Topic for wanting to switch up her look.
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Yummy guarantees delivery within 30 minutes of ordering with a $3.99 delivery charge, a feat Amazon cannot match.
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Democrats found it difficult to choose in 2008 because both their options seemed to them so delectably yummy.
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Well-known for their included breakfast at yummy Terra Bistro, this lodge is all the good stuff sans the excess nonsense.
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British Dictionary definitions for yummy

yummy

/ (ˈjʌmɪ) slang /

interjection

Also: yum-yum an exclamation indicating pleasure or delight, as in anticipation of delicious food

adjective -mier or -miest

delicious, delightful, or attractive

Word Origin for yummy

C20: from yum-yum, of imitative origin

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