Rupert Friend

The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing.

English Actor

Drew Barrymore

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

American Actress

Gwyneth Paltrow

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

I hate to cook, but I love to eat. I would want to be able to conjure yummy and healthy meals by wiggling my nose!

Canadian Actress

Laura Wasser

My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.

American Lawyer

Laurie David

I'm very average. I'm into fresh, yummy family food. I'm into leftovers.

American Activist

LeAnn Rimes

I'm Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy.

American Musician

Trinny Woodall

To me, a yummy mummy is a mum in her twenties, like Donna Air.

English Designer

Nushrat Bharucha

For me, Eid means having lots of yummy food.

Indian Actress

Alice Merton

Canadian Musician

Use 'yummy' when talking about food, usually in casual settings with friends or family, not in formal situations.

Context Matters

'Yummy' should be used only for things you think taste good, not things you dislike or are unsure about.

Not for Dislikes

'Yummy' is often associated with children or used when speaking to children but adults use it too.

Children's Vocabulary

Use 'yummy!' as an interjection to show an immediate, pleased reaction to the taste of food.

Spontaneous Reaction

Say 'yummy' to express a pleasant surprise at the first taste of food, like if it's better than expected.

Positive Surprise

Interjections like 'yummy' show personal taste. It might not be the same for everyone.

Personal Taste

Calling someone 'yummy' in a romantic way is playful and flirty, usually in private.

Affectionate Tease

Understanding that 'yummy' as an endearment may be specific to certain cultures helps prevent confusion.

Cultural Context

Use 'yummy' as a noun in a romantic context mostly in intimate or playful conversations.

Intimate Conversations

 smell that it's like a really yummy thing to eat like yummy chocolate ice cream but it sort of fills up the whole head so there was one time in Seattle there was a rose and I concentrated very very very hard and I got a faint whiff of it and that was probably the only time in my life that I've ever smelled

This Is What It's Like...

 Dolphins make this trade off. A lot of the food that they want most and the easy fishing grounds, the yummy fish occur around shallow seagrass beds. Unfortunately, that's also where tiger sharks preferentially like to hunt. To protect themselves, dolphins have a secret weapon-- echolocation.

How Dolphins Evade Shark...

 or places to live. These are things that we literally kill each other to get ahold of up at the surface world. But in the subsurface, the problem is finding enough energy. Up at the surface, plants can chemically knit together carbon dioxide molecules into yummy sugars

The mysterious microbes...

 And even, though rarely, vertebrates, such as frogs and birds. They can eat anything, from soft and yummy flies to armor-plated beetles. They can even eat and process poisonous caterpillars without harming themselves. And last year,

The Colorful,...

 the Scorpion is cannibalizing its victim but it's incapable of consuming solid food so what does it do well it excretes enzymes of course to turn the victim into scorpion soup mmm yummy the Shrew is on the prowl now

Cannibal Scorpions vs....

 The whale must then expel the water while retaining the yummy krill. To do this, it uses its baleen, the comb-like structure made of the same stuff our nails and hair are made of, and its tongue.

Why are blue whales so...

 they make short work of chewing through the wood to the tunnel beneath and then that peculiar finger really comes into its own and gotcha yummy but for sticks

Encouraging A New-Born...

 City concentrate on that short yummy green grass in order dry grass and likewise with elephants alia eating fantastic not once the world the other

Yummy

Very pleasing to the taste or smell.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

Used to express extreme pleasure or satisfaction at the taste of something.

Usage tips

A term of endearment for one's romantic partner implying that they are tasty or desirable.

Usage tips

Context Matters

Not for Dislikes

Children's Vocabulary

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