scrumptilicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrumptilicious
form: most scrumptilicious
Senses: examples: text: The teacher asked students about other new words that now are used generally. Students mentioned "tofu," "stroft" and "scrumptilicious." The teacher cited the word "smog" as a word that combines the words "smoke" and "fog." She asked students from where these words originated.
ref: 1986, Marilyn Elaine Draheim, A Study of the Effects of Directed Reading Thinking Activity and Conceptual Mapping Instruction on Reading and Writing Exposition, University of California, Berkeley, page 79:
text: Daddy loves to cook. He makes the best spaghetti you've ever had! Mommy's spaghetti is good, but Daddy's is scrumptilicious!
ref: 2003, Sue Kassirer, edited by Jerry Smath, What Daddy Loves, illustrated edition, Reader's Digest Children's Books, →ISBN:
text: "Good," Burt said. "Well, they sure feed you pretty well around here, kiddo. Juicy table craps. Filet mignon, sushi, lobster. Scrumptilicious, my friend. But you gotta work on Daisy. She's the weak link. Hey, how'd you like my acrobatic show out there? Not bad for an old German Shepherd, right?"
ref: 2009 February 25, Steve Sharp, “Dream Sleep”, in Wags and Gags with Hollywood Burt, SLQH Racing Publications, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Breakfast was always good times at 77 Jackson Street, Rear. You want to eat only breakfast for the rest of your life. "Miss Laura, these biscuits are just scrumptilicious," Lila said. "What's scrupilitious?" I ask "It's scrump-ti-li-cious, silly. Means mouthwatering, delicious," Lila said. "I just put a lot of love in 'em," Muh said.
ref: 2010 March 31, William Y. Cooper, 77 Jackson Street, Rear, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 121:
text: Check out the wheels! These scrumptilicious Moshlings move like lightning. But so would you, if you had turbo-charged sprinkles and a woowoo-ing cherry on your head.
ref: 2011, Steve Cleverley, “Section 11”, in Vincent Bechet, Trevor White, editor, Moshling Collector's Guide, illustrated edition, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 105:
text: It had to be done before his brothers woke up. His parents and both his older brothers were asleep after a scrumptilicious lunch of chicken, gravy, cranberry sauce, golden baked potatoes with a rather big glob of gooey butter perched on top.
ref: 2012, Rati Ramadas, “The Book of Spells”, in Puffin Book of Magic Stories, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Many new suffixes have evolved in this way: -athon originally from blends with marathon (e.g. swimathon, bikeathon, telethon and showerathon, which denotes events showing endurance and usually for charity); -gate originally from blends with Watergate (e.g. choppergate, nipplegate, dianagate, and prisongate, which denote some sort of scandal); most recently -(a)licious originally from blends with delicious (e.g. babelicious, bootylicious, funalicious, partylicious and scrumptilicious, which denote something or someone very attractive).
ref: 2016 November 3, Kate Burridge, Alexander Bergs, “2.1.12”, in Understanding Language Change, illustrated edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: The make an enterprising duo BFG and BCG And as dawn breaks They would visit the Queen to say "Good morning, ma'am" Before they would head north Of the British Isles To their Giant's island Where other Giants would give them Scrumptilicious treats Only Giants like BFG and BCG Would relish Like a gigantic, propellant rum bumstock To which the Queen Who once tried it at breakfast with BFG Said: “Goodness, it was uplifting!” So, bottoms up! Cheers! BFG and BCG for a giant leap forward Where Neil Armstrong tried only a tentative man step Half-a-century ago
ref: 2020 March 12, Du, Do The Buttjig!: Manpower For Manholes!; Revised 2nd Ed., Revised 2nd Ed. edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 17:
text: He shows her the page he was perusing. “Look at this coconut cake. Isn't it a beauty?” “That does look scrumptilicious,” agrees Filomena. “Gretel and Alistair will like it, too, don't you think?” “Sure,” says Filomena.
ref: 2022 February 1, Melissa de la Cruz, Never After: The Stolen Slippers, volume 2, Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN:
text: There were colourful tents with fun number games. There were food trucks with scrumptilicious food—from pizza to popcorn to popsicles. There were water slides, a merry-go-round and even a giant Ferris wheel.
ref: 2022 November 21, Sonia Mehta, “Section 7”, in Sleepytime Tales with Nico Numero: Bedtime stories with oodles, Penguin Random House India Private Limited, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Alternative form of scrumplicious.