crumpet
Meanings
Plural: crumpets
Noun
- a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle
- A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.
- A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women.
- The head.
Origin / Etymology
17th century, either from crompid cake (“wafer, literally, curled-up cake”), from crompid, form of crumpen (“to curl up”); cognate to crumpled. Alternate etymology is from Celtic; compare Breton krampouezh (“crepe, pancake”) and Welsh crempog (“pancake”).
Sense of “desirable woman” attested 1936, possibly as Cockney rhyming slang for strumpet; alternatively, compare tart (“loose woman, 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 UK.
Synonyms
beautiful person
Scrabble Score: 13
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