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This is not a food thread.
When one wishes to speak colloquially about something that tastes good, one may say that it is nummy or nummie. But which is it?
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Uh--the only times--and rare those have been--I've heard this term, people were asking toddlers if they'd like some "nummies", as in something sweet, I guess. Don't think I've ever seen it written.
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I think this may be a completely USn thing. It is not an expression I have ever heard before, in either spelling.
FWIW, I think that the spelling of words of this sort, which are primarily spoken forms, is a matter for the individual speller.
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Nummy wins the Google® Fight™ 17,100 to 683.
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My dog Spencer (aka Honey Bun) is called to food with "Nummie-Nums!" Never fails.
Otherwise it's a sorta childhood-referencing as when a chum arrives unexpectedly with a plate of special sweets and one exclaims "Oh, goodie! Nummie-nums!"
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And my post-teenage daughter refers to goodies as "nummers" -- doubtless a recollection of the word used during her infancy.
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Never heard that before F.S., although yummy is a pretty common term to say something tastes good (or to say a guy is particularly hot! But then it's not said in the same tone and there's often a woo-woo after it.  )
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I've lived in Northern Virginia, Denver, and more recently in Western NC for a total of over 50 years and I have never heard nummie or nummy. Ever. When you started talking about it I wondered if it might be English. How interesting.
If you had said a yummy I would have know whereof you spoke.
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In the rather dark Disney movie The Black Cauldron (1985), there is a fantastic creature named Gurgi who is perennially and insatiably hungry. Gurgi is omnivorous and prefers his food live. When searching for a nummie, he is wont to say ""Munchies and crunchies in here somewhere." My (parentally demented) children adopted this phrase, as well, and, if they were hungry, would demand "munchies and crunchies." This phase has, I think, passed.
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I bet they'd a dropped it right quick if you'd served them some live food.
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If you had said a yummy I would have know whereof you spoke.
Me, too, TEd. Yummy is (or was!) a fairly common Brit saying.
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Isn't there a famous reference to "birdie num nums" in a Peter Sellars (possibly Pink Panther) movie??
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The Peter Sellers film was actually "The Party" (1968) directed by Blake Edwards, as so many of his films were.
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