crumpern.
dialect or colloquial.
A ‘whopper’, ‘whacker’, ‘thumper’; also a ‘thumping’ lie, a ‘cracker’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie > blatant, extravagant
a lie with a latchet1580
rapper1611
banger1657
thumper1660
whisker1668
swinger1671
thwacker1674
strapper1677
volunteer1680
hummer1699
swapperc1700
rouser?1770
plumper1776
whopper1791
bouncer1803
yanker1822
rattler1825
whacker1825
falsism1835
crumper1855
bang1879
out-and-outer1880
big lie1939
1855 E. Waugh Birtle Carter's Tale in Sketches Lancs. Life (1857) 24 There's some crumpers amoon th' lot.
1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel I. ix. 256 You told me your father was a grocer in Oxford Street. Was not that what school-boys call a crumper?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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