Crumpet

/ˈkɹʌmpɪt/ · noun

Meaning

A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter..

Definitions by Sense

1. A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.
2. (UK, slang, dated, countable, uncountable) A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women.
3. (Australia, UK, slang) The head.

Example Sentences

T-Saint: I say we kill 'em! Donner: I say we hump 'em. Booga: I say we eat crumpets and tea. Deetee: Tasty! Crumpets and tea. All in favor of crumpets and tea, say "I." All: I! T-Saint: Shut up! Ain't gonna be no crumpets and tea.

Joan Bakewell was famously described as "the thinking man's crumpet".

John and his mates have gone out to find themselves some crumpet.

The regulars are all guys, a varied selection, my friends. There's Sammy—small, wiry, dark-haired. A hat manufacturer, crumpet mad—always chatting up different birds.

Our lives are saturated with middle-class crumpet Benedict Cumberbatch - but does he deserve the attention, asks Michael Hogan

He bad been worried off his crumpet all day, making arrangements on her behalf.

"If I don't get down them stairs soon I'll go off my crumpet, sittin' about up here all day with the jumps on me."

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