crumpet
/ˈkɹʌmpɪt/
crumpet noun: a type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.
Noun
crumpet (countable and uncountable, plural crumpets)
- 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.1995, Tedi Sarafian, Tank Girl, spoken by T-Saint, Deetee & Booger (respectively) (Ice-T, Jeff Kober, and Reg E. Cathey)
- T-Saint: I say we kill 'em!
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- beautiful person
- The head.
- He bad been worried off his crumpet all day, making arrangements on her behalf.1900 October 27, The Warwick Argus, Qld, page 4, column 5
- "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."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 80
crumpet meaning in Tamil and Urdu
crumpet in Tamil
- ஊத்தப்ப வகை, இனியப்பம்
crumpet in Urdu
- دلکش لڑکی
Examples of crumpet in a sentence
- A hat manufacturer, crumpet mad—always chatting up different birds.1969, Jackie Collins, The Stud, reprint edition, Simon & Schuster, published 1999, →ISBN, page 32:
- Our lives are saturated with middle-class crumpet Benedict Cumberbatch - but does he deserve the attention, asks Michael Hogan2014 November 12, Michael Hogan, “Have we reached peak Benedict Cumberbatch?”, in The Telegraph:
Synonyms of crumpet
- beautiful person
Forms of crumpet
| plural | crumpets |
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Origin of crumpet
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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Questions about crumpet
- What does crumpet mean?
- Crumpet means a type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.
- What is crumpet in Tamil?
- Crumpet in Tamil is ஊத்தப்ப வகை, இனியப்பம். See Crumpet meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use crumpet in a sentence?
- A hat manufacturer, crumpet mad—always chatting up different birds.
- What part of speech is crumpet?
- Crumpet is a noun.
- How do you pronounce crumpet?
- Crumpet is pronounced /ˈkɹʌmpɪt/.
- What is the plural of crumpet?
- The plural of crumpet is crumpets.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crumpet (page history and authors); crumpet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crumpet (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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