Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small flat round of bread, baked on a griddle and usually served toasted.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sort of tea-cake, less light and spongy than the muffin, and usually toasted for eating.
Wiktionary
- n. A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.
- n. UK, slang, uncountable A person (or, collectively, persons) considered sexually desirable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of large, thin, unsweetened muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider, or sometimes toasted.
- n. British slang a sexually attractive woman.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle
Etymologies
- 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 krampoez ("thin, flat cake"). (Wiktionary)
- Possibly from Middle English crompid (cake), curled (cake), probably past participle of crumpen, to curl up, probably from crumb, crump, crooked, from Old English. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Those from the Midlands and north will say that what I call a crumpet is a pikelet.”
“You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket! fostert says:”
“You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!”
“You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket! mangoshakes”
“That...and I just like saying the word crumpet, it's an awesome word.”
“Leaving here without a crumpet should be a felony, but the whimsically illustrated menu signage is full of other delicious non-crumpet items.”
“So "crumpet" may be a corruption of _crumpâte_ a paste made of fine flour, slightly baked.”
“Ways with words: Dame Joan Bakewell says 'crumpet' title held her down”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“It derives from the slang "crumpet" to refer to a woman who is regarded as an object of sexual desire, which is itself an association with the crumpet, a baked product usually eaten warm after being butter.”
“It's a handy one to bear in mind, as it only requires an hour's rise before cooking, but it's rather more like a homely little crumpet than anything from the mysterious east.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crumpet’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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O.o
Things that give you a warm fuzzy sort of feeling.
crumpet, cream puff, bubbles, packed lunch, prezzies, stars, pillow, rain, old books, sheep, bikkie, lollipop and 41 more...
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Let Them Eat Cake...
Tasty confectionery trinkets for the listless masses.
petit four, bon bon, scone, crumpet, meringue, cupcake, beignet, tart, tiramisu, ladyfingers, fritter, crepe and 44 more...
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Spiders
tarantula, black widow, brown recluse, orb-weaver, jumping spider, wolf spider, goliath birdeater, trapdoor spider, yellow sac spider, long-legged sac s..., redback spider, redback and 42 more...
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food words
weetabix, blancmange, shandy, meringue, allspice, pavlova, quiche, caster sugar, suet, moonshine, turnip, swede and 93 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for crumpet.
yarb Yes! What do you do with a crumpet? You crump it! Jul 28, 2009
PossibleUnderscore I love this word. It's just so...crumpety. Jul 28, 2009
sionnach Enzyme sometimes used in cheesemaking to enhance the friability, or 'crumbiness' of the final product. Jan 20, 2009
reesetee You can't get good crumpet help anymore. Sep 10, 2008
asativum They clearly misspelled Buterzkotsch Sep 10, 2008
bilby I'm disturbed by the appallingly correct spelling of Butterscotch. Sep 10, 2008
Prolagus Hork indeed! Sep 10, 2008
asativum Er. Is the word hork still in fashion around here? Sep 10, 2008
mollusque What about krimpets? Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpets ! Sep 10, 2008
asativum Wow, I've been away a bit. Can't believe I missed this one.
Anyway, reesetee, you have a point about pica. About 12 of them, actually. Sep 10, 2008
frindley So why, for the first time in months, do I buy a packet of crumpets today?
My favourite thing is to put a thin slice of unsalted butter on a hot crumpet and let it melt. Mmm.
Vegemite etc. is too salty and vaguely nutritious to give true crumpet pleasure.
But butter, honey and cinnamon is a nice combination for the sweet tooth.
There are, of course, the various slang uses of this word:
old crumpet - something akin to "old fart" or "mate", I confess to never having heard this in real life usage.
a bit of crumpet - a sexually desirable woman Jul 27, 2008
reesetee Not me. Pica makes me eat chalk. Jul 21, 2008
bilby Pikas make me sneeze. Jul 19, 2008
skipvia Nothing, Prolagus. They're cute and cuddly. And voracious. Jul 19, 2008
Prolagus What's wrong with pikas?! Jul 18, 2008
trivet The only pooka I know is a llama. Jul 18, 2008
skipvia In Asativum's world, yes. They're distantly related to the quite stroppy vulvarine. Jul 18, 2008
bilby So a pooka's like a giant pika on steroids? Jul 18, 2008
skipvia That's right, Asa. They're often found in the same habitat as the much larger pooka.
*And they're off!* Jul 18, 2008
asativum Isn't a marmite a sort of alpine rodent in North America? Jul 18, 2008
skipvia Of promite, vegemite, and marmite, the only one that sounds vaguely edible is vegemite--and that's only by comparison to the other two. They all sound like laxatives to me. Jul 18, 2008
bilby Promite is still made. Better on toast than on crumpets in my opinion. Jul 18, 2008
skipvia One and the same, sionnach. You can listen to the original broadcast here.
Regarding the myriad "*mites" that could adorn my crumpet, I'm standing by gooseberry jam and ricotta cheese. Barring that, cream cheese and sliced peaches. Jul 17, 2008
chained_bear I'm rather fond of promite instead. (Do they still make it? Haven't had any in years!) Jul 17, 2008
sionnach You could always substitute marmite for vegemite on that crumpet, skip.
Wasn't Crumpet the flirtatious elf in the Santaland Diaries? Jul 17, 2008
skipvia Aren't we all related, bilby?
*starts to hum "it's a small world after all..."* Jul 17, 2008
skipvia Well...I...ummm...I'm trying to cut down. Yeah, that's it. Jul 17, 2008
bilby BTW I've just found out that Anchorage is a sister-city of Darwin. Skipvia, we might be related. Jul 17, 2008
plethora Pass on vegemite? *shock* Jul 17, 2008
skipvia Thanks, bilby. Don't mind if I do. But I think I'll pass on the vegemite. Jul 17, 2008
bilby Here skip, have another *voila*. Jul 17, 2008
skipvia Did I forget to mention gooseberry jam and ricotta cheese? I was caught up in the moment. Jul 17, 2008
skipvia Empress Hotel, Victoria, BC. Mmmmmm... Jul 17, 2008
johnmperry also
(n) UK vernacular for good-looking female Jul 17, 2008
plethora I love crumpets.
Coincidentally, I was about to have some. With Vegemite, of course. Jul 17, 2008
bilby Ahh, the glory and wonder of down-under chunder thunder. Jul 17, 2008
sionnach Sounds of vulpine chundering ... Jul 17, 2008
bilby There's nothing like crumpets with vegemite. Jul 17, 2008
onomatopoeiaist I had my first crumpet for breakfast today. It was like a cross between an english muffin and a pancake. Jul 17, 2008
reesetee I've always liked this word. It makes pastry sound positively triumphant. :-) Mar 11, 2007
sonofgroucho Isn't this a wonderful word? Mar 11, 2007