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Meaning of scrumdiddlyumptious in English:

scrumdiddlyumptious

adjective

  • 1informal (of food) extremely tasty; delicious.

    • ‘scoops of scrumdiddlyumptious ice cream in so many different flavours’
    1. 1.1(of a person) very attractive.
      ‘you didn't mention he was scrumdiddlyumptious!’
      ‘you look positively scrumdiddlyumptious’

Origin

1940s (originally US slang): humorous alteration of scrumptious, popularized by Roald Dahl's novel The BFG (1982).

Pronunciation

scrumdiddlyumptious

/ˌskrʌmdɪdlɪˈʌm(p)ʃəs/