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What (who) is crumpet - definition
SMALL UNSWEETENED GRIDDLE BREAD
Crumpets; Crimpet; Krumpet; Crumpit; English crumpet
Crumpet
·noun A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.
crumpet
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1. a thick, flat savoury cake with a soft, porous texture, made from a yeast mixture cooked on a griddle and eaten toasted and buttered.
2. Brit. informal women regarded as objects of sexual desire.
3. archaic, informal a person's head.
Origin
C17: of unknown origin.
crumpet
(crumpets)
1.
Crumpets are round, flat pieces of a substance like bread or batter with small holes in them. You toast them and eat them with butter. (mainly BRIT)
N-COUNT
2.
Some men refer to attractive women as crumpet. This use could cause offence. (BRIT INFORMAL)
N-UNCOUNT
Wikipedia
Crumpet
A crumpet ( (listen)) is a small griddle bread made from an unsweetened batter of water or milk, flour, and yeast, popular in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia.
Crumpets are regionally known as pikelets, a name also applied to a thinner, more pancake-like griddle bread; a type of the latter is referred to as a crumpet in Scotland.
Examples of use of crumpet
1. For breakfast he would almost always ask for a burned crumpet.
2. Careful, Lewis, crumpet turns up at ten–a–penny for a genuine meal–ticket.
3. Ps How does Bill Nighy react to being called the thinking womans crumpet?
4. Warburtons — which likes to be known by its diminutive fun title ‘Warbies‘ — is the company that brought a whole new take to the traditional English crumpet in the form of the orange and green–flecked Pizza Flavour Crumpet.
5. Never cut a crumpet – you should tug and suck at the same time.