yummy
very pleasing to the senses, especially to the taste; delicious: The waiter brought out a tray of yummy desserts.
extremely attractive or appealing.
an item of food that is particularly delicious: The bakery window was full of yummies.
anything that is extremely attractive or appealing.
Origin of yummy
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How to use yummy in a sentence
In the 1980s, she showed how a fungal network searches for food and then re-forms itself after it finds something yummy.
Secret forest fungi partner with plants — and help the climate | Kathryn Hulick | December 9, 2021 | Science News For StudentsTwo in each specially-marked box of Cap’n Crunch cerealKAYEIn the 70s, kids like me got up super early to watch Saturday morning cartoons laced with advertising for sugary cereal and snacks loaded with yummy empty-calories.
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Urchin takeover underlies California’s vanishing kelp forests | Anushree Dave | May 7, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThe plastic’s recipe also offers the microbes ingredients they find yummy.
Here’s how to make flip-flops biodegradable | Kathiann Kowalski | December 8, 2020 | Science News For StudentsNo dumpsters full of “yummy restaurant food” means short-term starvation, he explains.
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In recent years, away from the screen, Hurley has reinvented herself as a yummy mummy.
Happy 20th Birthday, Liz Hurley’s Safety-Pin Dress | Tim Teeman | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPlus, sushi is yummy, and you can't blame a singer who's spent a decade shopping at Hot Topic for wanting to switch up her look.
Avril Lavigne’s Dumb ‘Hello Kitty’ Video Is Rife with Cultural Appropriation | Amy Zimmerman | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTyummy guarantees delivery within 30 minutes of ordering with a $3.99 delivery charge, a feat Amazon cannot match.
Democrats found it difficult to choose in 2008 because both their options seemed to them so delectably yummy.
Well-known for their included breakfast at yummy Terra Bistro, this lodge is all the good stuff sans the excess nonsense.
British Dictionary definitions for yummy
/ (ˈjʌmɪ) slang /
Also: yum-yum an exclamation indicating pleasure or delight, as in anticipation of delicious food
delicious, delightful, or attractive
Origin of yummy
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