crumpet

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
17
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈkɹʌmpɪt/

Definition of crumpet

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.
    “T-Saint: I say we kill 'em! Donner: I say we hump 'em. Booga: I say we eat crumpets and tea. Deetee: Tasty! Crumpets and tea. All in favor of crumpets and tea, say "I." All: I! T-Saint: Shut up! Ain't gonna be no crumpets and tea.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.
    “T-Saint: I say we kill 'em! Donner: I say we hump 'em. Booga: I say we eat crumpets and tea. Deetee: Tasty! Crumpets and tea. All in favor of crumpets and tea, say "I." All: I! T-Saint: Shut up! Ain't gonna be no crumpets and tea.”
  2. (UK, countable, dated, slang, uncountable)A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women.
    “Joan Bakewell was famously described as "the thinking man's crumpet".”
    “John and his mates have gone out to find themselves some crumpet.”
    “The regulars are all guys, a varied selection, my friends. There's Sammy—small, wiry, dark-haired. A hat manufacturer, crumpet mad—always chatting up different birds.”
    “Our lives are saturated with middle-class crumpet Benedict Cumberbatch - but does he deserve the attention, asks Michael Hogan”
  3. (Australia, UK, countable, slang, uncountable)The head.
    “He bad been worried off his crumpet all day, making arrangements on her behalf.”
    “"If I don't get down them stairs soon I'll go off my crumpet, sittin' about up here all day with the jumps on me."”

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Etymology

First appears c. the 17th century, either from crompid cake (“wafer, literally, curled-up cake”), from crompid, form of crumpen (“to curl up”); cognate to crumpled. An alternate etymology is from…

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First appears c. the 17th century, either from crompid cake (“wafer, literally, curled-up cake”), from crompid, form of crumpen (“to curl up”); cognate to crumpled. An alternate etymology is from Celtic; compare Breton krampouezh (“crepe, pancake”) and Welsh crempog (“pancake”). The sense of a “desirable woman” is attested since 1936, possibly as Cockney rhyming slang for strumpet; alternatively, compare tart (“a loose woman, a prostitute”) (itself possibly Cockney rhyming slang for heart or sweetheart). Note that muffin has a similar sense, and that, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Muffins and crumpets was a familiar street-cry in the UK.

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