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crum⋅pet

[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.

Origin:
1350–1400; short for crumpetcake curled cake, equiv. to ME crompid (ptp. of crumpen, var. of crampen to bend, curl (see cramp 1 ) + cake
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crum·pet   (krŭm'pĭt)   
n.  A small flat round of bread, baked on a griddle and usually served toasted.

[Possibly from Middle English crompid (cake), curled (cake), probably past participle of crumpen, to curl up, probably from crumb, crump, crooked, from Old English.]
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crumpet 
1694, perhaps from crompid cake "wafer," lit. "curled-up cake" (1382), from crompid, pp. of crumpen "curl up." Alternate etymology is from Celtic (cf. Breton krampoez "thin, flat cake"). Slang meaning "woman regarded as a sex object" is first recorded 1936.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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