crumpet

UK: /ˈkrʌmpɪt/ US: /ˈkrʌmpɪt/ ,(krum′pit)

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crum•pet /ˈkrʌmpɪt/  n. [countable]

1. British Terms, Food a small, round, soft bread toasted on a griddle.

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crum•pet  (krum′pit), n. [Chiefly Brit.]

1. British Terms, Food a round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted.
2. British Terms a sexually attractive woman.

• short for crumpetcake curled cake, equivalent. to Middle English crompid (past participle of crumpen, variant of crampen to bend, curl (see cramp¹) + cake 1350–1400

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

crumpet / ˈkrʌmpɪt/ noun

1. a light soft yeast cake full of small holes on the top side, eaten toasted and buttered
2. attractive people, esp women, collectively

Etymology: 17th Century: of uncertain origin