"crumpet" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkɹʌmpɪt/ Audio: en-uk-crumpet.ogg Forms: crumpets [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌmpɪt 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 19th and early 20th centuries, "Muffins and crumpets" was a familiar street-cry in UK. Etymology templates: {{der|en|cel|-}} Celtic, {{cog|br|krampouezh||crepe, pancake}} Breton krampouezh (“crepe, pancake”), {{cog|cy|crempog||pancake}} Welsh crempog (“pancake”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} crumpet (countable and uncountable, plural crumpets)
  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. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (savoury cake): 小圓烤餅 (Chinese Mandarin), 小圆烤饼 (xiǎoyuánkǎobǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), 烤麵餅 (Chinese Mandarin), 烤面饼 (kǎomiànbǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), lívanec [masculine] (Czech), crumpet (Finnish), crumpet [masculine] (French), racuch [masculine] (Polish), кра́мпет (krámpet) [masculine] (Russian), tekaka [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-crumpet-en-noun-T8M5YEjk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 55 45 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'savoury cake': 84 16
  2. (UK, slang, dated, countable, uncountable) A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women. Tags: UK, countable, dated, slang, uncountable Synonyms (sexually desirable person): beautiful person Derived forms (sexually desirable person): bit of crumpet, piece of crumpet, thinking man's crumpet Translations (sexually attractive woman): kočka [feminine] (Czech), baba [feminine] (Czech), roštěnka [feminine] (Czech)
    Sense id: en-crumpet-en-noun-XPC6S~A~ Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 44 56 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 55 45 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 46 54 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 39 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 36 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of 'sexually desirable person': 2 98 Disambiguation of 'sexually desirable person': 2 98 Disambiguation of 'sexually attractive woman': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: crumple, crumpled, pikelet, strumpet, tart

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.