| 单词 | yum-yum |
| 释义 | ▪ I. yum-yum
see yum int.
▪ II. yum-yum, n. slang.|ˌjʌmˈjʌm|
[Redupl. of yum int.]
a. An action providing a pleasurable or delicious sensation; love-making; also (Naval slang), love-letters. Also yum-yum girl (euphem.), prostitute.
1885Punch 3 Jan. 4/1 You and me's got our notions of yum-yum, as isn't fur wide o' the mark. 1939A. Huxley After Many a Summer i. iv. 45 Enjoying what she called ‘a bit of yum-yum’. 1943Hunt & Pringle Service Slang 71 Yum yum, love letters. 1960‘S. Harvester’ Chinese Hammer xxv. 202 Yum-yum tarts from Hong Kong or ex-temple dancers from Java. 1962A. Buchwald How Much is that in Dollars? 124 One of the chiefs said, ‘Don't let her kid you. All her girls are really yum-yum girls from the dance halls’. 1962Times 12 July 13/5 Would the sin bosun (chaplain) frown, one wonders, at hearing a love-letter described as a ‘yum-yum’? 1967S. Beckett Texts for Nothing iii. 86 Come, ducky, it's time for yum-yum.
b. spec. Tasty food (of various kinds).
1889‘Aunt Babette's’ Cook Book 330 Yum-Yums. Grate one cocoanut, reserving the milk; one pound and a half of pulverized sugar, whites of three eggs. 1932O. O. McIntyre Another ‘Odd’ Book 5 Whenever I mention a longing for such old-fashioned yum-yums as gingersnaps..the response is immediate. 1941J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 58 Yum-yum, sugar.
▪ III. yum-yum, a. slang.
[f. as prec.]
Excellent, first-class; delectable.
1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang II. 428/2 Yum⁓yum (London), first-rate, elegant. 1922Joyce Ulysses 372 Howth settled for slumber tired of long days, of yumyum rhododendrons. 1962R. Prawer Jhabvala Get Ready for Battle iii. 135, I wish my cook could learn..how to make cheese pakoras like these, they are absolutely yum-yum. |
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