yummy

English

Etymology

From yum +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• enPR: yŭm'ē, IPA^(key): /ˈjʌm.i/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌmi

Adjective

yummy (comparative yummier, superlative yummiest)

1. (colloquial, lighthearted, often childish) Delicious.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:delicious

   Antonyms: (childish) yucky; see also Thesaurus:unpalatable

Derived terms

• yummylicious
• yummy mummy
• scrummy
• nummy

Related terms

• yum

Translations

delicious

• Arabic: لَذِيذ (laḏīḏ)
• Armenian: համով (hy) (hamov), համեղ (hy) (hameġ)
• Bengali: লজিজ (bn) (lôziz), মজা (bn) (môza)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 好食 (hou² sik⁶), 好味 (hou² mei⁶)

  Hakka: 好食 (hó-sṳ̍t)

  Hokkien: 好食 (hó-chia̍h)

  Mandarin: 好吃 (zh) (hǎochī)

• Czech: lahodný (cs), výtečný
• Danish: lækker (da)
• Dutch: lekker (nl), heerlijk (nl)
• Esperanto: bongusta (eo)
• Finnish: nami (fi), nanna (fi)
• French: délicieux (fr) m, délicieuse (fr)
• Georgian: გემრიელი (ka) (gemrieli)
• German: lecker (de), köstlich (de), schmackhaft (de), leckerfritzig (de)
• Hebrew: טעים m (taím), ימי (he) m (yámi)
• Hungarian: fincsi (hu)
• Indonesian: enak (id)
• Italian: delizioso (it) m, deliziosa (it) f, gnam
• Japanese: 美味しい (ja) (おいしい, oishii), おいしい (ja) (oishii), 旨い (ja) (うまい, umai), うまい (ja) (umai)
• Khmer: ឆ្ងាញ់ (km) (chngañ)
• Korean: 맛있다 (ko) (masitda), 맛있는 (ko) (masinneun)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: sapidum n, sapidus m
• Malay: sedap (ms)
• Polish: pyszny (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) delicioso (pt)
• Romanian: gustos (ro)
• Russian: вку́сный (ru) (vkúsnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: њами

  Roman: njami

• Spanish: delicioso (es), rico (es)
• Swedish: smaskens (sv), smarrig (sv), mumsig (sv), smaskig (sv)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: อร่อย (th) (à-rɔ̀i)
• Tibetan: བདའ་བ (bda' ba) (of savory foods), ཟིལ་དངར (zil dngar) (of sweet foods), ཞིམ་པོ (zhim po) (of sweet or nutty foods), བྲོ་བ་ཆེན་པོ (bro ba chen po)
• Turkish: harika (tr), lezzetli (tr), leziz (tr), nefis (tr)
• Vietnamese: ngon (vi), thơm ngon, ngon miệng (vi)

Noun

yummy (plural yummies)

1. (slang) Ellipsis of yummy mummy.
   • 2009, Leah McLaren, The Continuity Girl:

     The Yummies were the women who, next to the Starlets and Professional Have-It-Alls, Meredith envied most, and therefore half-despised. You could see them at the latte bars, drinking green tea smoothies, hoisting their fat-cheeked offspring from one hip to the other, comparing notes on washable diapers and baby-friendly resorts.

See also

• yummies