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yum

UK/jʌm/

yum interjection: indicating delight at the flavor of food. Also the acronym of Yellowdog Updater.

Interjection

  1. Indicating delight at the flavor of food.
    • Yum! This apple pie is delicious!
  2. (broadly, informal) Indicating delight in other things.
    • Grandpa bought an RCA Color TV. Mmm. See my Beatles in color. YUM.1965 January 3, Lou Sullivan, Diary

Adjective

yum (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Delicious.
    • This apple pie is yum!
    Antonyms:
    yuck

Proper noun capitalized: Yum

Yum (plural Yums)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

yum is also the acronym of Yellowdog Updater.

yum meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu

yum in Hindi

यम

yum in Tamil

யூம், யாம்

yum in Bengali

ইউম, ইয়ুম

yum in Telugu

యమ్, యుమ్
More languagesFewer languages
yum in Malayalam
യുമ്
yum in Kannada
ಯುಮ್, ಯಮ್
yum in Punjabi
ਯੂਮ
yum in Odia
ଯ଼ମ୍

Antonyms of yum

Forms of yum

Interjection
alternative formyum yum
Proper noun
pluralYums

Origin of yum

Imitative.

Words formed from yum

Phrases with yum

Words that rhyme with yum

42 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about yum

What does yum mean?
Yum means indicating delight at the flavor of food.
What is yum in Hindi?
Yum in Hindi is यम. See Yum meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is yum?
Yum can be an interjection, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce yum?
Yum is pronounced /jʌm/ (UK).

Words near yum in the dictionary

  1. Yulong
  2. yulos
  3. Yulparija
  4. Yulparirra
  5. Yulparitja
  6. yum
  7. yum cha
  8. yum yum
  9. yum yum sauce
  10. yum yum sauces
  11. Yuma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yum (page history and authors); Yum (page history and authors); yum (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yum (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yum (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yum (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yum (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yum (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yum (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yum (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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