crempog
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Welsh crempog.
Noun
crempog (plural crempogs)
- A Welsh pancake made with self-raising flour, salt, eggs, milk and salted butter.
- 1947, Viscount Gwynedd, Dame Margaret: The Life Story of His Mother, page 194:
- But each time a great stack of freshly made Crempogs was brought from the kitchen and handed round you can guess how fervently I prayed my mother's insistence that she really could eat no more of anything might spare us both.
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Anagrams
- compreg
Welsh
Alternative forms
- crempogen
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkrɛmpɔɡ/
Noun
crempog f (plural crempogau)
- pancake; fritter
Derived terms
- crempogog (“like a pancake; wrinkled”, adj)
Related terms
- cramwyth (“pancakes, fritters”)
- cramwyth wyau (“omelets”)
- ffroes f (“pancakes, omelets, fried meat and eggs”)
- pancosen f (“pancakes, fritters, omelets”)
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| crempog | grempog | nghrempog | chrempog |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950-), “crempog”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies