Crumpet
noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter. countable, uncountable
"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 a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle wordnet
- 3 A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women. UK, countable, dated, slang, uncountable
"Joan Bakewell was famously described as "the thinking man's crumpet"."
- 4 The head. Australia, UK, countable, slang, uncountable
"He bad been worried off his crumpet all day, making arrangements on her behalf."
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More examples"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."
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 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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