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Definition of crumpet in English: crumpetnoun ˈkrʌmpɪtˈkrəmpət 1A thick, flat, savoury cake with a soft, porous texture, made from a yeast mixture cooked on a griddle and eaten toasted and buttered. Example sentencesExamples - At home my father tears open a packet of crumpets and toasts them on the Aga.
- We started off the morning with tea and crumpets.
- After a few months I might expand to toasting bagels, baps, teacakes and crumpets.
- He smiled, pleasantly, as if they were chatting over tea and crumpets.
- On wet days, the children make scones and fudge, and play pirates in the sitting room, which involves roaring fires, and the toasting of sausages and crumpets.
- There is a vast difference between clover honey (which is good on breads and crumpets and in teas) and, say, buckwheat honey.
- Enjoy beautifully prepared cakes and pastries, or a full afternoon tea with sandwiches, toasted buttered crumpets and scones, while you are transported back in time.
- Still singing, I took the crumpets out of the toaster and put them on a plate, spreading a generous amount of butter over them.
- There were no crumpets to be had, and the hot buttered muffins were tepid and rubbery.
- We shared two hot toasted crumpets and a cherry scone.
- Soon enough, there was a pot of steaming coffee and a plate of honey-drenched crumpets standing in front of her.
- They were low on bakery stuff however; I got the last packet of crumpets, though they were a bit squashed but I couldn't find a single loaf of bread.
- I got changed and toasted a hot crumpet to cure the cold and wet, before heading out in the car for dinner.
- Chris stocked it with coffee, tea, honey, jam, crumpets, English muffins and butter.
- Staffordshire oatcakes are thicker and round, more like a thin crumpet or modern pikelet, and are fried with bacon for breakfast.
2British informal mass noun People, especially women, regarded as objects of sexual desire. fat chance of our running into any crumpet in singular he's the thinking woman's crumpet Example sentencesExamples - ‘There's some really great crumpet here tonight,’ I said.
- Steady on, the reason we men liked her was because she was a tremendously attractive and sexy piece of crumpet…
- But he's not just the witty boulevardier whose model looks have made him the thinking female student's crumpet for years.
- I decided I, too, would flit among the islands in search of cheap lodgings, wonderful food, clean, unspoilt beaches and, most important, crumpet.
- But the shave was the best I have ever had, beating these triple bladed, turbocharged bits of plastic which masquerade as razors, and according to the adverts, guarantee you get laid by some really classy crumpet.
- I don't even qualify for thinking man's crumpet.
- Unfortunately, their consorts are interchangeable bits of crumpet fit only for the all-too-frequent rolls in the hay that come to seem perfunctory, even mechanical.
- So my advice to any man who has his eye on a bit of crumpet is to just ask.
3archaic, informal A person's head.
Phrases the certificate that they hold is not worth a crumpet Example sentencesExamples - Winning races wasn't worth a crumpet unless the money was on with bookmakers.
- Our dollar is not worth a crumpet.
- Anything that the Minister might say about the cost implications of this in this House are not worth a crumpet.
- He seems not to have any greater area of his body coloured in than he had when he wasn't worth a crumpet, maybe there has been some growing up done over the last year.
- Confidence-building between diplomats is not worth a crumpet in comparison with confidence-building between military staffs.
Origin Late 17th century: of unknown origin. sense 2 dates from the 1930s. Definition of crumpet in US English: crumpetnounˈkrəmpətˈkrəmpət A thick, flat, savory cake with a soft, porous texture, made from a yeast mixture cooked on a griddle and eaten toasted and buttered. Example sentencesExamples - He smiled, pleasantly, as if they were chatting over tea and crumpets.
- At home my father tears open a packet of crumpets and toasts them on the Aga.
- After a few months I might expand to toasting bagels, baps, teacakes and crumpets.
- Enjoy beautifully prepared cakes and pastries, or a full afternoon tea with sandwiches, toasted buttered crumpets and scones, while you are transported back in time.
- We shared two hot toasted crumpets and a cherry scone.
- I got changed and toasted a hot crumpet to cure the cold and wet, before heading out in the car for dinner.
- Soon enough, there was a pot of steaming coffee and a plate of honey-drenched crumpets standing in front of her.
- On wet days, the children make scones and fudge, and play pirates in the sitting room, which involves roaring fires, and the toasting of sausages and crumpets.
- We started off the morning with tea and crumpets.
- There is a vast difference between clover honey (which is good on breads and crumpets and in teas) and, say, buckwheat honey.
- Staffordshire oatcakes are thicker and round, more like a thin crumpet or modern pikelet, and are fried with bacon for breakfast.
- Still singing, I took the crumpets out of the toaster and put them on a plate, spreading a generous amount of butter over them.
- They were low on bakery stuff however; I got the last packet of crumpets, though they were a bit squashed but I couldn't find a single loaf of bread.
- There were no crumpets to be had, and the hot buttered muffins were tepid and rubbery.
- Chris stocked it with coffee, tea, honey, jam, crumpets, English muffins and butter.
Origin Late 17th century: of unknown origin. crumpet (sense 2 of the noun) dates from the 1930s. |