Crumpet Definition

krŭmpĭt

crumpets

noun

A small, unsweetened batter cake baked on a griddle: it is usually toasted before serving.

Webster's New World

(UK, slang, uncountable) A person (or, collectively, persons) considered sexually desirable.

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

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

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Crumpet

Singular:

crumpet

Plural:

crumpets

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 krampoez (“thin, flat cake”).

From Wiktionary
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).

From Wiktionary
Possibly from Middle English crompid (cake) curled (cake) probably past participle of crumpen to curl up probably from crumb, crump crooked from Old English

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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