scrumtrulescent

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.

Definitions

  1. Transcendent and fantastic beyond description.

    • We don't like to get political with our cakes; we just get scrumtrulescent.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA