crumpet

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I'll go balmy on the crumpet--I'll get to stickin' straws in my bloomin' 'air You 'get to' the telephone and send that message to The Yard, if you know when you're well off," said Cleek, laughing.

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  1. noun A small flat round of bread, baked on a griddle and usually served toasted.

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  • Got a crumpet or a butter roll anywhere, Cherryvery This is Liir. —  SON OF A WITCH
  • Stylish women from all over the world would drop by for a crumpet and a cup of joe. —  The Aristocrats
  • A crumpet, if you will, on Wednesday's Tea Parties on the West Side.
  • Here, take this cup of tea And a crumpet," added Mrs Larrabel, who sympathised with the spirit of hospitality Yes, take a crumpet, and let me hear about your last place Poor Hetty, who was still very weak from her recent illness, and would gladly have been excused sitting down with two strangers, felt constrained to comply, and was soon put at her ease by the kindly tone and manner of the hostess. —  Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
  • Breaking his crumpet is for him as bad as breaking one of his limbs. —  A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions
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  1. Possibly from Middle English crompid (cake), curled (cake), probably past participle of crumpen, to curl up, probably from crumb, crump, crooked, from Old English.

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  1. Perhaps from Middle English crompid (i. e., *crumped), a hard cake, apparently orig. a ‘roll,’ past participle of *crumpen, English crump, bend. Otherwise referred to crump, brittle, crisp. Prob. not connected with W. crempog, also crempogen, and cremog, cremogen, a pancake, a fritter; cf. Welsh crammwyth, in same sense.
 

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