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crumpet

[ kruhm-pit ]

noun

, Chiefly British.
  1. a round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted.
  2. British Slang. a sexually attractive woman.


crumpet

/ ˈkrʌmpɪt /

noun

  1. a light soft yeast cake full of small holes on the top side, eaten toasted and buttered
  2. (in Scotland) a large flat sweetened cake made of batter
  3. slang.
    women collectively
  4. a piece of crumpet slang.
    a piece of crumpet a sexually desirable woman
  5. not worth a crumpet slang.
    not worth a crumpet utterly worthless


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Word History and Origins

Origin of crumpet1

1350–1400; short for crumpetcake curled cake, equivalent to Middle English crompid (past participle of crumpen, variant of crampen to bend, curl ( cramp 1 ) + cake

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Word History and Origins

Origin of crumpet1

C17: of uncertain origin

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Example Sentences

Drop that crumpet: The weirdest new narrative in American politics seeks to recast President Obama as a British monarch.

Breaking his crumpet is for him as bad as breaking one of his limbs.

What's the meaning of bric-à-brac, that mamma was talking about to Colonel Crumpet?

Yes, corroborated the commodore, Dickie found a dozen people who think youre dottie on the crumpet, all right.

Then the people feasted on blinnies—a pancake similar to the English crumpet.

The story will get across to the Germans in some garbled form; 'Smith off crumpet,' or something of that sort.

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