crumpet

[ kruhm-pit ]

/ ˈkrʌm pɪt /

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.

Nearby words

crumhorn, crummie, crummock water, crummy, crump, crumpet, crumple, crumple zones, crumpled, crunch, crunch numbers

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

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|DAILY BEAST
The story will get across to the Germans in some garbled form; 'Smith off crumpet,' or something of that sort.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, February 3, 1915|Various
Crumpet was able to catch the meaning of that remark, and it goaded him almost to the striking point.
Camp-fire and Wigwam|Edward Sylvester Ellis
Yes, corroborated the commodore, Dickie found a dozen people who think youre dottie on the crumpet, all right.
Nothing But the Truth|Frederic S. Isham

Breaking his crumpet is for him as bad as breaking one of his limbs.
A Boswell of Baghdad|E. V. Lucas
“And a crumpet,” added Mrs Larrabel, who sympathised with the spirit of hospitality.
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished|R.M. Ballantyne

British Dictionary definitions for crumpet

crumpet

/ (ˈkrʌmpɪt) /

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

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.