crempog
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
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.
- 1973, Kyffin Williams, Across the Straits: An Autobiography:
- We used to visit farms for crempog teas and I used to eye the huge pot of melted butter, in which lurked the small round pancakes, with apprehension.
Anagrams edit
Welsh edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Related to English crumpet; it is unclear which language borrowed from which. Compare also Breton krampouezh.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
crempog f (plural crempogau)
Derived terms edit
- crempogog (“like a pancake; wrinkled”, adj)
Related terms edit
- cramwyth (“pancakes, fritters”)
- cramwyth wyau (“omelets”)
- ffroes f (“pancakes, omelets, fried meat and eggs”)
- pancosen f (“pancakes, fritters, omelets”)
Mutation edit
| 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 edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “crempog”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies