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11 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
originProbably from scrimp (“to put on short allowance, limit, straiten; to be frugal”) + -ious (suffix forming adjectives denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (usually an abundance)), possibly modelled after scrimption (“small portion, little bit, scrap”). Douglas Harper instead derives the word from sumptuous. As the early cites in British English have a clearly different sense from the…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- protiums 12
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- tropisms 12
- utopisms 12
- compts 12
- crimps 12
- crumps 12
- cuprum 12
- scrimp 12