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  • #16155
    cheeky girl
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    Yummy – pyszny
    Scrummy – palce lizac 😀

    [b:92d554bbc9]Yummy and scrummy [/b:92d554bbc9]

    Yummy and scrummy – childhood terms for the taste of food. I remember using them when I was a kid. They’re actually quite old – well, a hundred years or so – they’re late 19th century – is the first time I’ve found a reference to them from 'yum, yum’ – 'yummy’ from 'yum, yum’ – first, referring to delicious food, of course, and then to attractive people. That became a usage in the 1990s, which was quite fashionable for a while. People talked about 'yummy mummies’ – that is, the perfectly-groomed woman who goes to yoga classes, stays slim, has clean children and has a four-wheel-drive. And other usages came in too – 'I’ve got a very yummy job’, people might say, and recently, I heard somebody talking about somebody who had a very yummy blog on the internet – in that sense, it means, sort of, delightful and attractive, rather than delicious.

    Well, 'scrummy’, anyway became modelled on 'yummy’. It developed in the early 20th century some years later, again, originally with reference to food – scrumptious, you see, it’s a derivation from that word, which means delicious. People talked about 'scrummy cakes’ and 'scrummy recipes’, and then, started using it as an adjective too, more than 'yummy’ did, you know, 'that was scrummier’, 'this is scrummiest’. I have heard 'yummier’ and 'yummiest’, but 'scrummier’ and 'scrummiest’ seems to be more common! Something 'sounds scrummy’. There are 'scrummy TV shows’ now. The word, evidently, has moved on!

    [i:92d554bbc9]from http://www.bbc.co.uk[/i:92d554bbc9%5D

    #96202
    Minek
    Członek

    Thanks! It’s very interesting! I want more, please…! 😆 Where you found it love?

    #96214
    cheeky girl
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    Minek wrote:

    Thanks! It’s very interesting! I want more, please…! 😆 Where you found it love?

    Thanks. i found it on bbc website:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1453_uptodate3/page25.shtml

    and you can even listen to it if you wish so 😀

    #96215
    cheeky girl
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    And another one:
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    Manky[/b:1df99c9486]

    Manky. M-A-N-K-Y. Not monkey – manky! It’s a regional usage. I’ve heard it in various parts of the north of England and up in Scotland too. It has a whole range of meanings. When you hear somebody say 'my torch is all manky’, it means it’s not working properly, it’s worthless, it’s defective, it’s a bit inferior. And then, I’ve heard people say 'oh, he’s got manky socks’ or 'that baby’s nappy is manky’ and that means it’s grimy or dirty, it might even be a bit smelly – that’s another usage of the term – 'bananas are manky’ or 'that dustbin is manky’ – it means it’s rotten, it’s disgusting, it’s got a smell of some kind.

    And it generalises from there, too, into personal feelings – if you’re feeling under the weather for instance, in some parts of the country, you can say, you know, 'I feel manky today’. And then up in Scotland especially, it’s used quite nastily, as a term of abuse – you know, somebody might say 'you manky so and so’, that’s really quite harsh.

    Where does it come from? Ah, I wish we knew. Very unclear origins. It certainly goes back to the 1950s, maybe before. Some people think it comes from an old French word meaning 'impaired’. I don’t know. Certainly, it’s been used in a wide range of constructions now. I’ve heard it used in the phrase 'you’re going to mank it up’ meaning 'you’re going to mess it up’. I’ve actually heard somebody talk about something being 'mankified’! To mankify – a verb. And then there’s that northern dialect use in Yorkshire where somebody says 'I’m feeling manky’, 'I’m feeling rough and unwell’. That sort of use so upset people, doctors in particular who didn’t understand what it meant, that they actually decided to write a guide to Yorkshire dialect to help them out, and so there you get in this list of medical terms 'manky’, feeling rough.
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