Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1840
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¶BUMPLEFYKE, n. Anything spoilt by cooking, being left too long, etc., a mess, an unpalatable state, of food or the like.Ags. c.1840 Jervise MS.:
Gin ye're nae quick in gi'en me milk, my sowans 'ill be a bumplefyke!
[Not otherwise recorded. Appar. a nonce usage and corrupt variant of Bumplefeist.]
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