We were offered such goodies as five styles of eggs, bacon, … and scrumptious pastries. Dick Bradley
This inviting farmstead and restaurant is known for its scrumptious apple dishes … Parenting
scrumptiouslyadverb
Standard menu fare includes scrumptiously fluffy eggplant clouds … Shira Feder
… a scrumptiously filthy guitar solo burning with taut tones. Randall Radic
scrumptiousnessnoun
… [the recipes] lack the extra touch, the extra effort to lift them to scrumptiousness. Cook's Magazine
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First appearing in English in the early 1800s, scrumptious is a mouth-watering word that is used to describe what is delightful and delectable. It probably originated as an alteration of sumptuous, and it carries the elegant and wonderful connotations of its parent. (Speakers of Middle English borrowed sumptuous from the Latin adjective sumptuousus,a derivation of the Latin noun sumptus,meaning "expense" or "cost"). British author Roald Dahl had some fun with scrumptious and created a delightful coinage, when he inserted the infix‑diddly- into the word to make scrumdiddlyumptious, the word that chocolate magnate Willy Wonka uses to name his best-selling treats in his novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964).
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