crumpet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small, round British bread made from yeast batter, with holes on top, usually toasted and eaten with butter

   She toasted a crumpet and spread butter over its warm, porous surface.

2. 2
   noun

   dated and offensive British slang for a sexually attractive person, especially a woman

   The old review dismissed the actresses as crumpet, a sexist description the editor later removed.

Recorded in English from the late seventeenth century, crumpet is of uncertain origin. It has been linked to Middle English crompid cake, literally "curled cake," from crumpen ("to curl"), but the connection is not certain. The dated slang sense developed in the 1930s.

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