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- Dictionarynummy/ˈnʌmi/
adjective
- 1. (of food) delicious. informal North American
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Nummy is just a another form of "nom nom", describing something as delicious. Share. Improve this answer. edited Oct 15, 2011 at 22:06. answered Dec 6, 2010 at 23:54. kzh. 284 3 8. 1. I've seen 'om nom nom' as the onomatopoeic sound of eating, and the derivative from that of "nom" - but never nummy.
Sep 20, 2010 · Etymonline says: "delicious," 1899, from baby talk. Yum-yum as an exclamation of pleasure is recorded from 1878. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language says: From yum, the sound of smacking the lips. The Collins English Dictionary says: From yum-yum, of imitative origin. Merriam-Webster says: Origin of YUMMY: yum-yum.
How does one correctly apply “in which”, “of which”, “at which”, “to which”, etc.? I'm confused with which one to apply when constructing sentences around these.
I have heard the term "CFNM" being used in sexuality, does anybody know what the term means ? (Note: OP said "CNFM", but another user edited that to "CFNM".) Actually 'googling' didn't help at all.
Jul 11, 2013 · 1. Grammatically, both by and as are acceptable in either of the examples given. But as mathematical statements, both examples have problems. In the first example, “The function f is defined by/as f=a+b+c ”, unless a, b, c all are previously-defined functions or constants, the arguments of f and its dependence on them is unclear, ie ...
Accumulative means having the characteristic of tending to accumulate. Cumulative means having built up or accumulated over time. E.g. something has a cumulative effect, or is a cumulative result of something. It is more specific in meaning than 'accumulative', in that it
May 23, 2012 · They give a first known use for the adverb as 1813 and define it: in a roughly forceful manner < rode roughshod over the opposition > The Word Detective says: The original literal meaning of “to ride roughshod” was far more brutal.
Apr 25, 2011 · Jolly is sometimes used in the same way, as for instance, " Jolly as a sand-boy," which is derived from similar movements of small insects found in sand. In 1888, it's noted: JOHN COLEBROOK ("Merry as a sand boy"). — More commonly "Jolly as a sand boy." This question has been twice asked in ' N. & Q.' without eliciting a satisfactory answer.
May 13, 2017 · American English: British English: Synched is more popular than synced for both American and British English, but the gap is closer in British English. I've seen both used in the computer industry. The common and my preferred way of abbreviating synchronous is sync, rather than synch, partly because it makes more sense to pronounce it as sink ...
Oct 13, 2015 · 22. The Mmmm syllable can be several syllables, with many conventional meanings, like MMM-mmm or mmm-MMM, which can respectively be 'no' and 'yes' in many contexts. It's described phonetically as a syllabic voiced bilabial nasal continuant; in IPA it's [ṃ] (Unicode 1643; UTF8 E1 89 83; Latin small letter M with dot below).
