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crumpet|ˈkrʌmpɪt|
Also 7 -it.
[Not known till late in 17th c.; Wyclif has however crompid cake as a rendering of laganum, which may be the antecedent of the name:
1382Wyclif Ex. xxix. 23 A cake of a loof, a crusted cake spreynde with oyle, a crompid cake, of the leepe of therf looues [1388 a tender cake of o loof, spreynde with oile, paast sodun in watir and after fried in oile, of the panyer of therf looues; Vulgate tortamque panis unius, crustulam conspersam oleo; laganum de canistro azymorum] .
Crumpid here app. means ‘curled up, bent into a curve’ (see crump v.1, crumped) as is usual with thin cakes baked on a griddle or iron plate; cf. cruller. The crumpet is not necessarily the same now as when it was first so called.]
†1. A thin griddle cake: in quots. made of buckwheat meal. Obs.
1694Westmacott Script. Herb. (1695) 220 They make Cakes of it [Buck Wheat]..as they do Oat-cakes, and call it Crumpit. 1830Withering's Brit. Plants (ed. 7) II. 449 footn., It [buck-wheat meal]..is made into thin cakes in Shropshire and other parts of England, called crumpits. [Not in Miss Jackson's Shropshire Word-bk. 1879.] 2. A soft cake made of flour, beaten egg, milk, and barm or baking-powder, mixed into batter, and baked on an iron plate. (Royal Baker, 1890.) Now usually a soft, round, doughy cake made with flour and yeast, cooked on a griddle or the like and usu. eaten toasted with butter. Cf. pikelet1.
1769Mrs Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 279 To make Tea Crumpets. Beat two eggs very well, put to them a quart of warm milk and water, and a large spoonful of barm; beat in as much fine flour as will make them rather thicker than a common batter. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 1353 The basket and bell pass..with muffins and crumpets. 1855Trollope Warden viii, There was dry toast and buttered toast, muffins and crumpets. 1899Wilde Importance of being Earnest i. 22, I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury. 1912E. H. Ryle Athletics iii. 53 The usual indigestible concomitants of a heavy tea—buttered buns and crumpets—ought to be eschewed. 1930D. L. Sayers Strong Poison ix. 111 Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. 1969R. & D. De Sola Dict. Cooking 78/2 Crumpets are similar to..muffins but of porous consistency with surface holes.
attrib.1825Hood Ode to Gt. Unknown, This is dimpled, Like a pale crumpet face, or that is pimpled.
3. dial. = crumpling n. 2, crumpy n.
4. slang.
a. The head; esp. in phr. balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet: wrong in the head, mad: see balmy a. 7, barmy a. 2 b.
1891[see balmy a. 7]. 1897W. S. Maugham Liza of Lambeth ix. 153 You're all barmy on the crumpet. 1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay iii. iii. 356, I heard my aunt admit that one of the Stuart Durgan ladies did look a bit ‘balmy on the crumpet’.
b. A trivial term of endearment; also old crumpet.
1900G. Swift Somerley 40 You're Ophelia, Scrubby; but don't you go winking at the johnnies in the stalls, you giddy little crumpet! 1920Punch 21 Jan. 45/1 Don't, Percival, old crumpet. 1923Wodehouse Inimit. Jeeves ii. 23, I say, old crumpet, did my uncle seem pleased to see you?
c. Women regarded collectively as a means of sexual gratification; occas. a woman; sexual intercourse. So a bit (or piece) of crumpet: a (desirable) woman; a ‘bit of fluff’.
1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid 75 Fancy staying up as late as this and not having no crumpet. 1958M. Pugh Wilderness of Monkeys 37 ‘Not much crumpet here, tonight,’ Maguire said, smiling lecherously at the military man's companion. 1959S. Delaney Taste of Honey (rev. ed.) ii. ii. 81 He's gone off with his bit of crumpet. 1961D. Moore Highway of Fear i. 11 There's a delightful piece of crumpet..I'm anxious to set me eyes on again. 1961Spectator 25 Aug. 269 Thigh-slapping accounts of luscious foreign crumpet. 1969D. Lambert Angel in Snow iv. 63 Ansell..watched the couples wistfully. ‘Plenty of crumpet here, you know. Why don't you chance your arm?’ |