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scrumtrulescent en · ADJ

Etymology

A word coined by Saturday Night Live comedian Will Ferrell when doing an impression of The Actors Studio host James Lipton, in order to describe the performance of actor Charles Nelson Reilly on the Match Game. Perhaps influenced by scrumptious and -escent.

Meanings

1. (US, rare, slang) Transcendent and fantastic beyond description.
   • We don't like to get political with our cakes; we just get scrumtrulescent. 2012, Liz Gutman, Jen King, The Liddabit Sweets Candy Cookbook, →ISBN:
   • When we were finished, Tschick pushed his empty bowl away with both hands and, in the woman's direction, said that it had been a scrumtrulescent meal. 2014, Wolfgang Herrndorf, Why We Took the Car, page 110:
   • These are scrumtrulescent! 2005 October 14, Sarah Kramer, “Desserts”, in La Dolce Vegan! Vegan Livin' Made Easy, Arsenal Pulp Press, →ISBN:
   • Needless to say, all it took was one whiff of her Magnolia scent and I was hooked like a hhoneybee^([sic]) to a flower. She was so scrumtrulescent. 2015, Grayer Vaughan, The Vaughan Chronicles: Burning Blossom, page 35:

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