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Definition of Scrumptious
1. Adjective. Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste.
Similar to: Tasty
Derivative terms: Toothsomeness
Definition of Scrumptious
1. a. Nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine.
Definition of Scrumptious
1. Adjective. Delicious; delectable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scrumptious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrumptious
Literary usage of Scrumptious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"It is only in the second sense "excellent, fine, capital, delightful", that I
find scrumptious used in vulgar English. The closing formula "yours ..."
2. The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson (1910)
"Just positively scrumptious, and ..." "An' what'd he do?" " An' what about his
old sketch of a wife?" "Her? Oh"—and Laura squeezed herself desperately, ..."
3. Songs of the Average Man by Sam Walter Foss (1907)
"ELDER FORD'S TWO CANDIDATES Now, I don't want to brag at all; but this is my
idee: It takes a purty scrumptious man to git ahead er me. ..."
4. Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann Sophia Stephens (1874)
"says I, beginning to take a notion to the great bunches of flowers which did
stand out from the white ground with scrumptious richness. " I am sure of it. ..."
5. Silver lake; or, Lost in the snow by Robert Michael Ballantyne (1867)
"Oh, if I could only get a deer this day," thought he, " how scrumptious it would
be 1" What he meant by " scrumptious " is best known to himself, ..."
6. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"scrumptious. 1. Particular; fastidious. Probably a corruption of scrupulous.
A vulgarism. I don't want to be scrumptious, judge; but I do want to be a man. ..."
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