scrumptious

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈskɹʌm(p)ʃəs/    美 /ˈskrəm(p)ʃəs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of food: delectable, delicious. informal
    — What a scrumptious treat!
  2. Of a person or thing: excellent, wonderful; also, very aesthetically pleasing or attractive; good enough to eat. informal
    — […] I came here to have a wink at the fash'nables—hang me, if ever I see such a scrumptious lot.
  3. Fastidious, picky. informal,obsolete,rare
  4. Very small; tiny. informal,obsolete,rare

词形变化

more scrumptious comparative most scrumptious superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
delumptious plumptious scrumdiddlyumptious scrummy scrumplicious scrumptiously scrumptiousness scrumtrulescent unscrumptious yumptious
相关词
appetizing sumptuous tasty tempting

词源

Probably from scrimp (“to put on short allowance, limit, straiten; to be frugal”) + -ious (suffix forming adjectives denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (usually an abundance)), possibly modelled after scrimption (“small portion, little bit, scrap”). Douglas Harper instead derives the word from sumptuous. As the early cites in British English have a clearly different sense from the early cites in American English, only to merge together later, it may be that there were originally two unrelated words.
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