crumpet

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: crum=pet

CIDE DICTIONARY

crumpet, n. [Prob. from W. crempog, crammwgth, a pancake or fritter.].

•  A kind of large, thin, unsweetened muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider, or sometimes toasted.  [1913 Webster]
•  a sexually attractive woman.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crumpet, n.
1 a soft flat cake of a yeast mixture cooked on a griddle and eaten toasted and buttered.
2 Brit. joc. or offens. a a sexually attractive person, esp. a woman. b women regarded collectively, esp. as objects of sexual desire.
3 archaic sl. the head.

Etymology

17th c.: orig. uncert.

THESAURUS

crumpet

Danish, Danish pastry, English muffin, Parker House roll, Yorkshire pudding, bagel, bialy, bialystoker, bun, clover-leaf roll, coffee cake, crescent roll, croissant, cross bun, gem, hard roll, hot cross bun, kaiser roll, muffin, onion roll, pinwheel roll, popover, roll, scone, soft roll