crumpet

[kruhm-pit]

noun Chiefly British.

a round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted.

British Slang. a sexually attractive woman.

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 cramp¹) + cake

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Examples from the Web for crumpet

Contemporary Examples of crumpet

Drop that crumpet: The weirdest new narrative in American politics seeks to recast President Obama as a British monarch.
The GOP vs. 'King Obama'
John Avlon
May 1, 2010

Historical Examples of crumpet

Breaking his crumpet is for him as bad as breaking one of his limbs.
A Boswell of Baghdad
E. V. Lucas
Crumpet did the same, though with less cordiality in his manner.
Camp-fire and Wigwam
Edward Sylvester Ellis
Her hesitation caused him to neglect his crumpet, to look up at her.
T. Tembarom
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mrs. Crumpet agreed to wait, while Miss Bixby went for the books.
The Librarian at Play
Edmund Lester Pearson
At the issue desk was Mrs. Crumpet, having her books charged.
The Librarian at Play
Edmund Lester Pearson

British Dictionary definitions for crumpet

crumpet

noun mainly British

a light soft yeast cake full of small holes on the top side, eaten toasted and buttered

(in Scotland) a large flat sweetened cake made of batter

slang women collectively

a piece of crumpet slang a sexually desirable woman

not worth a crumpet Australian slang utterly worthless

Word Origin for crumpet

C17: of uncertain origin

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Word Origin and History for crumpet

1690s, perhaps from crompid cake "wafer," literally "curled-up cake" (1382; Wyclif's rendering of Hebrew raqiq in Ex. 29:23), from crompid, past participle 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.