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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.
crumpet
/ ˈkrʌmpɪt /
noun
- 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 slang.utterly worthless
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crumpet1
C17: of uncertain origin
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Example Sentences
Drop that crumpet: The weirdest new narrative in American politics seeks to recast President Obama as a British monarch.
From The Daily Beast
Breaking his crumpet is for him as bad as breaking one of his limbs.
From Project Gutenberg
What's the meaning of bric-à-brac, that mamma was talking about to Colonel Crumpet?
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Yes, corroborated the commodore, Dickie found a dozen people who think youre dottie on the crumpet, all right.
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Then the people feasted on blinnies—a pancake similar to the English crumpet.
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The story will get across to the Germans in some garbled form; 'Smith off crumpet,' or something of that sort.
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