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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.
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crumpet
1694, perhaps from crompid cake "wafer," lit. "curled-up cake" (1382), from crompid, pp. of crumpen "curl up." Alternative etymology is from Celtic (cf. Breton krampoez "thin, flat cake"). Slang meaning "woman regarded as a sex object" is first recorded 1936.
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