# yum

Pronunciation: say "YUM" /jʌm/

## Interjection

1. Used to express delight at how a food or drink tastes.
   - Simple: Said to show that food you are eating tastes really good.
   - _Yum, that fresh bread smells incredible and tastes even better!_
   - _He grinned after the first spoonful of stew and murmured, "Yum."_

## Adjective

2. Having a delicious taste; very pleasing to eat or drink. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Tasting very good and pleasing to eat.
   - _The street vendor's dumplings were absolutely yum._
   - _Everyone at the table agreed the homemade jam was yum._

## Proper noun

3. Acronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified: a popular package manager for Linux. — Acronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux.
   - Simple: Acronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified. It is a tool that installs and updates programs on Linux computers.
   - _Administrators rely on yum to manage software packages across their Linux servers._
   - _She used yum to resolve the dependencies before building the application._

## Origin

The word is imitative, formed to echo a sound.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/yum (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).