scrumplicious meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

scrumplicious

adj

Etymology Blend of scrumptious + delicious.

Deliciously scrumptious.

There is nothing to enrich a child's language except a discussion of ‘delumptious’ and ‘scrumplicious’ as mixtures of delicious and scrumptious.1982, Sheila G. Bannister Ray, The Blyton Phenomenon: The Controversy Surrounding the World's Most Successful Children's Writer, 2, reprint edition, Unknown Publisher, →ISBN, page 172:
"Yeah..." Tully drew out. "You know what I'd miss the most? Casa's meatball soup. It's just scrumplicious."1995 April 15, Paullina Simons, “Robin and Jeremy”, in Tully, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 223:

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After pie, Cassie and I decided we would cook the whole dinner over again, starting right then. When everything was finally ready—almost ten o'clock that night—we were pleased that our work had paid off. It tasted scrumplicious. And we had done it without Edmund or Dina. We had done it ourselves. Just the two of us. To celebrate, I slept over. And we cut each other's hair.2007 August 16, Alex Bradley, Hot Lunch, Penguin, →ISBN:
Tufan cut himself a monster slice of scrumplicious Glo by Chocolate, the national dish of Glo. He had eaten until he was stuffed at breakfast, but there was always space for Glo by Chocolate.2012 August 7, Roopa Pai, The Race for the Glo Rubies, Hachette India, →ISBN:
But, unfortunately, Laetitia was present when the idea of tennis was proposed. ‘Oh, how scrumplicious!’ she boomed. ‘We can take on all comers in the Mixed Doubles, can't we, Blotto?’2012 December 15, Simon Brett, Blotto, Twinks and the Dead Dowager Duchess, reprint edition, volume 2, Felony & Mayhem Press, →ISBN:
She taught the unsuspecting Suzanne such words as ‘fiddlesticks!’, ‘piffle’, ‘scrumplicious’, which, of course, was a mixture of scrumptious and delicious. Suzanne liked the words very much, and used them whenever she could. She described Mam'zelle's new lace collar as ‘scrumpleeeecious!’ and amiably told her that in her opinion swimming was ‘peefle’ and ‘vairy feedlesteecks’ and didn't Mam'zelle agree with her?2016 July 1, Enid Blyton, Last Term: Book 6, volume 6, Hachette Children's Group, →ISBN:

Related terms: delumptious