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Definition of Crumpet
1. Noun. A thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle.
Definition of Crumpet
1. n. A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.
Definition of Crumpet
1. Noun. A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter. ¹
2. Noun. (British slang uncountable) A person (or, collectively, persons) considered sexually desirable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crumpet
1. a small cake cooked on a griddle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crumpet
Literary usage of Crumpet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... To be a little bit " balmy in one's crumpet" means to be slightly crazy.
The synonyms are "to be touched," "off one's chump," " wrong in the upper ..."
2. Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist by Henry Cockton (1844)
"But to those who had just left the crumpet and Crown this scene was not awful at
... Two ran back !o the crumpet and Crown,and the rate at which they ran ..."
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