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scrumptious, a. colloq. or vulgar.|ˈskrʌmpʃəs|
[Prob. identical with the dial. scrumptious ‘mean, stingy, close-fisted’, related to scrimption small quantity, f. scrimp v. The transition to sense 1 below is not impossible; for the development of sense 2 cf. nice a.]
1. Fastidious, hard to please. ? U.S. only.
1845Judd Margaret ii. vii. (1874) 291, I don't mean to be scrumptious about it, Judge; but I do want to be a man, if I..haven't so much eddication as the rest.
2. a. U.S. Stylish, handsome. b. Used as a vague epithet of enthusiastic praise: First rate, ‘glorious’. Now esp. of food: delicious. So ˈscrumptiousness, the state or condition of being scrumptious.
1836Haliburton Clockm. Ser. i. xxiii, A little tidy scrumptious looking slay. 1865Meredith R. Fleming xxxi, Hang me, if ever I see such a scrumptious lot. 1881Punch 30 July 47/2 There is a certain exquisite scrumptiousness and goloptiousness about Real Turtle. 1894Somerville & ‘Ross’ Real Charlotte II. xxxii. 247 The cake was scrumptious. 1901F. Hume Golden Wang-ho iv, ‘I shan't show it [the picture] to anyone til it's done..; then you'll say it is scrumptious’. 1922Joyce Ulysses 740 You will always think of the lovely teas we had together scrumptious currant scones and raspberry wafers I adore. 1930Magnet 25 Jan. 6/2 ‘It's lovely butterscotch—scrumptious!’ 1976A. L. Rowse Cornishman Abroad 14 The scrumptious meal she cooked, Cornish duck and Californian avocado stuffed with shrimp, our own cream from the farm with the delicious sweet. |