New Peebleshire Word of the Week: Comeuppance
Come - up- pance
n.(singular)
(kum - up - entz)
1. Any of a variety of recompensory goods distributed in accordance with the growth of one's scrupleberries.
2. A tasty treat, usually delivered in a pan by a jovial baker.
Ex. "After returning home from hard week's brick-scrubbing, the chimneysweep found a pan of hot comeuppance on his Friday evening doorstep."
New Peebleshire's local "Muffin Man," probably on his way to deliver comeuppance to a deserving and chivalrous citizen.
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