4. (thieves’).—Plump in the pockets. [Probably an extended use of sense
1.]
Crummy-Doss, subs. (thieves’).—A lousy bed. [From crummy (q.v., sense
3), lousy, + doss (q.v.), a bed.]
Crump, subs. (Winchester College).—A hard hit; a fall. Used also as a
verb in very much the same sense as to cob (q.v.). Cf., Barter.
Crumpet, subs. (common).—The head.
English Synonyms. Brain-pan; nut; chump; jazey; steeple; tib or tibby;
weather-cock; turnip; upper extremity; top end; twopenny; upper storey;
canister; attic; garret; costard; sconce; bonce; nob; lolly; lobb;
knowledge-box; block; cocoa-nut; Crown-Office; calabash; top-knot;
crust; chimney-pot; onion; chevy; cockloft; top-flat; gable; pumpkin;
hat-peg; billiard ball; upper-crust; mazzard; cabaza; dome.
French Synonyms. Le michaud (thieves’); un caillou (popular; properly a
pebble or flint); une baigneuse (thieves’); un baptême (popular); une
cafetière (thieves’ and vagrants’); une façade (popular); une armoire à
glace (popular); une bille (popular: properly a billiard ball); un
béguin (popular); une citrouille or un citrouillard (thieves’:
literally a pumpkin or gourd); un citron (thieves’); une ardoise
(popular); un coco (popular: literally a cocoa-nut); une calebasse
(popular = a calabash); une cocarde (popular: properly a cocade); un
caisson (common: literally a chest or locker); une coloquinte
(thieves’); un chapiteau (popular: literally a capital); une balle
(popular); un moule de bonnet (popular: literally a cap-mould); le
grenier à sel (popular: properly the [Attic] salt-loft); le baldaquin
(a canopy); la boule (popular: the bowl, ball, or sconce); une ciboule
(popular: properly a scallion, green onion, or eschalot); la boussole
(familiar: in nautical phraseology, the compass); la pomme (popular and
thieves’); le tesson (roughs’); la bobine (popular: literally a bobbin
or spool); la poire (popular); la boîte au sel (familiar: the [Attic]
salt-box); la boîte à sardines (popular = sardine box); la boîte à
surprises (general: box of surprises); la tirelire (popular: literally
money-box); la hure (properly the head of a wild boar); la gouache
(popular); la noisette (popular: literally nut); le char (popular); le
réservoir (popular: reservoir or cistern); le bourrichon (popular); la
goupine (thieves’); la tourte (popular: properly tart or fruit pie); la
tronche (thieves’ = chunk (or ‘chump’ of wood); le trognon (popular);
la guitare (common); la guimbarde (popular: properly a Jew’s harp); le
soliveau (popular; properly a small joist); le bobéchon (popular); la
bobinasse (popular); le kiosque (familiar); le vol-au-vent (general);
l’omnibus (common); la sorbonne (see remarks under Balmy, sense 2); la
caboche (possibly a language word); le soufflet (popular: literally
bellows; also the head of a carriage); le jambonneau (popular: properly
a small ham); le schako (popular).
German Synonym. Kiefel.
Italian Synonyms. Chiurla or ciurla (a popular term); elmo (literally a
helmet); borella (properly a ball); grinta (in orthodox Italian,
ringworm of the scalp).
Spanish Synonyms. Chimenea (fem.; literally a chimney. Se le subió el
humo á la chimenea, = the smoke has got into his head; said of one who
is affected with drink); cholla (fem.); cabezorro (mas.; a big head, an
augmentative of cabeza); caletre (mas.; an abusive term, properly
understanding, judgment, discernment); campanario (mas.; properly a
belfry).
Balmy in one’s crumpet.—See Balmy, sense 2, and the foregoing.
Crumpet-face, subs. (common).—A pock-pitted face.—See Cribbage-face.
Crumpet-Scramble, subs. (popular).—A tea party; tea-fight,
muffin-worry, muffin-fight, bitch-party or cooky-shine (q.v.).
1864. Derby Day, p. 16. There are men who do not disdain
muffin-worries and crumpet-scrambles.
Crumpler, subs. (common).—1. A cravat.