[Vocabulary] sinfully!

hello. I have a question
I watched a drama 'how i met your mother'
situation is christmas and they are seems happy
anyway,
cast said : "baby, do i smell your sinfully cinnamon cookies?" "yes"
I don't know 'sinfully' meaning
dictionary says guilty,creppy .. etc
I'm so confusing I think he means positive.
anyway thanks for reading I can't speak english very well..

jang gang said:

[STRIKE]h[/STRIKE] Hello. I have a question.
I watched a drama '[STRIKE]h[/STRIKE] How [STRIKE]i [/STRIKE] I met your mother'.
The situation is [STRIKE]c[/STRIKE] Christmas and they [STRIKE]are[/STRIKE] seem[STRIKE]s[/STRIKE] happy.
anyway,
cast said : "baby, do i smell your sinfully cinnamon cookies?" "yes"
I don't know 'sinfully' meaning
dictionary says guilty,creppy .. etc
I'm so confusing I think he means positive.
anyway thanks for reading I can't speak english very well..

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I'll correct the rest of your post when I have time. In the meantime, could you let us know which dictionary defines 'sinfully' as 'guilty, creepy'? It's not one that I know.

You're right - it's positive, but the dictionary's right too. They are cinnamon cookies, and they're delicious - hard to resist. This use of 'sinfully' isn't an idiom. It's chosen - probably by the person who named the cookie recipe - because of the alliterative jingle with 'cinnamon'.

b

PS after seeing 5jj's post - it's fairly approximate, but the use of 'guilty' to mean 'sinful' would work in a collocation like 'guilty secret' (which, as you know, is a secret of guilt, and not a secret that itself is guilty of something!) I assume jang gang knocked the '-ly' off before going to the dictionary and looking up 'sinful'.

Gluttony is a sin. These cookies are so delicious that they lure you to the sin of gluttony.

But really, more broadly, there is sometimes a feeling that anything that feels truly wonderful must somehow be sinful. Eating a really rich, dark, chocolate cake can be so good you think eating it must be a sin. Such a cake (like Lily's cookies) is sinfully delicious.

BobK said:

PS after seeing 5jj's post - it's fairly approximate, but the use of 'guilty' to mean 'sinful' would work in a collocation like 'guilty secret' (which, as you know, is a secret of guilt, and not a secret that itself is guilty of something!) I assume jang gang knocked the '-ly' off before going to the dictionary and looking up 'sinful'.

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And 'creepy'?

5jj said:

And 'creepy'?

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You've got me there. Perhaps the lexicographer is a high moralist and thinks that sinful people are creeps...:-? ;-?

b
PS Students: this is a lame attempt at a joke. 'Creepy' doesn't mean 'like a creep'. That sort of 'creep' is an informal way of saying that someone 'makes your flesh crawl' [=makes you feel uneasy], or more generally is just an insult. 'Am I going out with him?? What, that creep!?' (I tried making the object 'her', to avoid implications of bisexuality, but it didn't sound right. It seems -?) that a 'creep' is necessarily male.)

BobK said:

It seems -?) that a 'creep' is necessarily male.)

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That's an interesting point. I hadn't thoight of it before, but I think you are right. Both males and females can be 'creepy', but only a male can be 'a creep'. I think.

Just for the record, "How I Met Your Mother" is in no way a drama. It's a sitcom.