A Cornish Pasty Lexicon

• buccas or bocklyes – mine spirits or imps, also known as knockers.
• calzone – a folded pizza: the Italian pasty.
• crib – a small meal, or lunch.
• crimp – the pastry crust of a pasty which seals the contents.
• crowst or croust – a lunch, or a feed.
• fuggan – a Cornish heavycake.
• hoggan – unleavened dough filled with pork; also used as a term for a miner’s bag.
• likky – leek.
• mate – meat.
• mate an tiddy oggy – meat and potato pasty.
• neaps – turnips or swede.
• oggy or oggie – a pasty. Thought to derive from ‘hoggan’.
• rutabaga – swede or turnip.
• snap – miner’s meal.