Definitions

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  • noun UK A rough cider, normally more alcoholic than usual, and typically produced through natural fermentation.

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  • noun strong cider (as made in western England)

Etymologies

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From scrump +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Cider comes in all sorts of varieties from the mass produced to the local farm "scrumpy".

    Barbecues, corn on the cob and other stuff Michele 2007

  • Time to make some Edwardian scrumpy on an industrial scale!

    Tonight's TV highlights Rebecca Nicholson 2010

  • I can't wait for Obama to debate scrumpy old Mcbush.

    After bad press, McCain goes back to town-halls 2008

  • Of course the Captain, vice Captain and secretary could have their raspberries or is that blackberries and keep tabs on who be playing while they imbibe some scrumpy or should that be shandies.

    All The Kings Men « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength...

    A busy weekend... Imogen 2009

  • An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength...

    Archive 2009-03-01 Imogen 2009

  • We awlso haz scrumpy dat is still cider juss 2 comfuzzle an iffn u drink 2 mutch u get berry comfuzzled!

    YOU GOT ME RIBBONS!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • The scrumpy middle-aged ones who've begun to sag have nice houses with a couple of tasteful pictures on the mantlepiece and a fresh rug, showing off a house that looks as lived in as the bodies they're revealing.

    Oscar Nominee Roundup: The Queen and The Departed 2006

  • This time, when he looked at me, I returned a steady gaze, my heart swelling with new, scrumpy courage.

    Slaying is Such Sweet Sorrow Patricia Harwin 2005

  • If anyone dared to call up the maker of the best scrumpy in the county, she didn't doubt there'd be an uprising ....

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

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  • It calms the old girl when she’s jumpy

    And cheers her on days when she’s grumpy.

    The proper elixir

    For all that afflicts her

    Is pomaceous nectar called scrumpy.

    May 13, 2018

  • Viv Stanshall, proto-Wordie und playboy, was fond of this phrase and whereof it signifies both

    May 13, 2018

  • Brackets around "proto-Wordie und playboy" please--I might have a couple places for it.

    May 14, 2018

  • Duly brack't

    May 15, 2018