crumpet
Americannoun
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a round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted.
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British Slang. a sexually attractive woman.
noun
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a light soft yeast cake full of small holes on the top side, eaten toasted and buttered
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(in Scotland) a large flat sweetened cake made of batter
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slang women collectively
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slang a sexually desirable woman
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slang utterly worthless
Etymology
Origin of crumpet
1350–1400; short for crumpetcake curled cake, equivalent to Middle English crompid (past participle of crumpen, variant of crampen to bend, curl ( see cramp 1) + cake
Explanation
A crumpet is a spongy bread that's cooked on a griddle and served warm with butter. Crumpets are a delicious alternative to toast or English muffins. Crumpets were probably invented in Wales as a way to make bread without access to an oven. Like English muffins, they're cooked on a hot pan or griddle, but crumpets are made from a batter, rather than a dough. Etymologists suspect that crumpet may derive from crompid cake, "wafer," or literally "curled-up cake," and its root, which is shared with crumple.
Vocabulary lists containing crumpet
Example Sentences
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One of the important things she has trained Captain Crumpet and Chikondi in is what to do if they feel threatened and she carries a rucksack as a mobile safe space.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Perhaps he even shouted it from 10,000 feet up Mount Crumpet.
From Salon • Dec. 9, 2021
Open since 1976, the Crumpet Shop is the only place in the Market to get delightfully squishy, hot griddled crumpets.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2021
Come December there’s always room for Crumpet, the sardonic gay adult who rather desperately takes a job as a department store elf and dishes to us about the needy customers and the sad-sack Santas.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2017
"We all know the Muffin Man that lives in Crumpet Lane," sang Polly and Phronsie merrily, out on the grass-plot, as they danced away.
From The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Sidney, Margaret
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