Lovely jubbly. Notice the pronunciation, ‘lovely jubbly’. There is a kind of resonance there, a rhyming resonance, which is part of the attraction of the phrase. It’s a jocular exclamation. It means excellent, brilliant, great. It’s the sort of thing you’d say when you got some good news or had a stroke of luck, ‘ah, lovely jubbly’. Well, would you use it? It depends whether you’re influenced by television, I suppose, more than anything
Yummy and scrummy - childhood terms for the taste of food. I remember using them when I was a kid. They’re actually quite old – well, a hundred years or so – they’re late 19th century – is the first time I’ve found a reference to them from ‘yum, yum’ - ‘yummy’ from ‘yum, yum’ - first, referring to delicious food, of course, and then to attractive people. That became a usage in the 1990s, which was quite fashionable for a while. People talked
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