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Definition of scrumpy in English: scrumpynoun ˈskrʌmpi mass nounBritish Rough strong cider, especially as made in the West Country of England. Example sentencesExamples - I risked a pint of Old Rosie, scrumpy cider twice the strength of normal beer!
- Before that night we had found a particularly good batch of scrumpy, and when we collided, literally, on the outskirts of town, we immediately started laughing.
- They are shy, mostly, though you'd not think so on a scrumpy [rough apple cider] night when things can get rather lively and rumbustious.
- We drank scrumpy and fell over a lot; which I suppose was a silly way to spend my paper-round money.
- Yes, some even crawl the last mile to the shrine, for they have supped at the cup of scrumpy and yea it maketh them fall down and cry out in tongues.
- You might land in Alloa just as the Real Ale Festival kicks off and be faced with over 40 real ales plus scrumpy and wine, the perfect antidote to a hard day's walking.
- Therefore an ideal time to drink gut-rot scrumpy from plastic glasses at 2.80 a pint.
- Step into the fairy ring (which grows under apple trees) and you'll come to 20 years later, after a life wasted on scrumpy.
- Our other favourite drink in the forces was scrumpy mixed with Babycham.
- No longer, do the grey legions of workers spend their precious leisure time walking the chalky downs, or being Mr Polly and bicycling the byways for refreshing half-pints of scrumpy.
- And I did exactly what any teenager would do after several pints of yokel-strength scrumpy and half a bottle of Russian paint-stripper.
Origin Early 20th century: from dialect scrump 'withered apple'. Rhymes bumpy, clumpy, dumpy, frumpy, grumpy, humpy, jumpy, lumpy, plumpy, rumpy-pumpy, stumpy |