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yum

interjectionadjectiveproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//jʌm//

Indicating delight at the flavor of food.

interjection

  1. 1

    Indicating delight at the flavor of food.

    Yum! This apple pie is delicious!

  2. 2

    informalIndicating delight in other things.

    Grandpa bought an RCA Color TV. Mmm. See my Beatles in color. YUM.

Etymology

Imitative.

adjective

  1. 1

    informalDelicious.

    This apple pie is yum!

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of Yellowdog UpdaterAcronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux.

    Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).