Word.ws English Dictionary

scrumtrulescent

scrumtrulescent adjective: transcendent and fantastic beyond description.

Adjective

scrumtrulescent (comparative more scrumtrulescent, superlative most scrumtrulescent)

  1. (US, rare, slang) Transcendent and fantastic beyond description.
    • These are scrumtrulescent!2005 October, Sarah Kramer, “Desserts”, in La Dolce Vegan! Vegan Livin' Made Easy, Arsenal Pulp Press, →ISBN
    • 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

Forms of scrumtrulescent

comparativemore scrumtrulescent
superlativemost scrumtrulescent

Origin of scrumtrulescent

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.

Questions about scrumtrulescent

What does scrumtrulescent mean?
Scrumtrulescent means transcendent and fantastic beyond description.
What part of speech is scrumtrulescent?
Scrumtrulescent is an adjective.

Words near scrumtrulescent in the dictionary

  1. scrumpy
  2. scrumpy and western
  3. scrums
  4. scrums up
  5. scrumtrelescent
  6. scrumtrulescent
  7. scrunch
  8. scrunch up
  9. scrunchable
  10. scrunched
  11. scrunched up

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scrumtrulescent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “scrumtrulescent.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scrumtrulescent. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.