Crossword clues for scrumptious
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrumptious \Scrump"tious\, a. Nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine. [Slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1833, in countrified humor writing of "Major Jack Downing" of Maine (Seba Smith); probably a colloquial alteration of sumptuous. Originally "stylish, splendid;" sense of "delicious" is by 1881. Related: Scrumptiously; scrumptiousness.
Wiktionary
a. delicious; delectable
WordNet
adj. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, toothsome, yummy]
Usage examples of "scrumptious".
These blueberries are scrumptious, and the coffee stinks without cream and sugar.
This wonderfully scrumptious man saw her as a woman, a desirable woman.
She squatted and flung back the tied ends, expecting to see more dead animals, but finding a nice selection of his scrumptious preserved vegetables.
The hotel suite was lavish, the catered food scrumptious, and Carol swept through rooms as if she had grown up doing it, her occasional rough speech pardoned by everyone who had read or wanted to read her sexy book.
It looked scrumptious, a huge fudge-frosted round cake with white-iced loops reflecting the intricate pattern on the chapel floor.
Even if we add an extra ounce of sugar, a cup of coffee, and a little olive oil to make our lives more scrumptious, we can still beat the USDA and its Thrifty Food Plan at their own game.
Nancy even gave me her recipe for that scrumptious Charlotte Russe she makes.
He drank some cold water from the bathtub faucet but ignored a perfectly scrumptious rawhide chew toy.
A long table of sculpted blue crystals flecked with firefly sparks sat in the middle of the room, laid with a scrumptious buffet of Atlantean seafood.