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語源

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.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈskɹʌm(p)ʃəs/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈskrəm(p)ʃəs/
• ハイフネーション: scrump‧tious

形容詞

scrumptious (comparative more scrumptious, superlative most scrumptious) (originally US, informal)

1. Of food: delectable, delicious.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:delicious

   Antonym: unscrumptious

   What a scrumptious treat!

2. Of a person or thing: excellent, wonderful; also, very aesthetically pleasing or attractive; good enough to eat.
   • 1865, George Meredith, “The Melting of the Thousand”, in Rhoda Fleming. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 262:

     […] I came here to have a wink at the fash'nables—hang me, if ever I see such a scrumptious lot.

   • 1989 March 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 8S, column 1:

     Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.

3. (obsolete, rare)
   1. Fastidious, picky.
   2. Very small; tiny.

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Further reading

• [John Camden Hotten] (1859), “SCRUMPTIOUS”, in A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, […], London: John Camden Hotten, […], →OCLC, page 88: “nice, particular, beautiful. Suffolk, scrumshus, stingy.”
• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SCRUMPTIOUS, adj.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 292, column 1: “mean, stingy, close-fisted.”