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Crumpet   Listen
noun
crumpet  n.  
1.
A kind of large, thin, unsweetened muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider, or sometimes toasted.
2.
A sexually attractive woman. (British slang)





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"Crumpet" Quotes from Famous Books



... strict training. On the other hand, in view of the fact that the final House-match had yet to be played, and that Merevale's was one of the two teams that were going to play it, it behoved him to keep himself at least moderately fit. The genial muffin and the cheery crumpet were still things to be avoided. He thus found himself in a position where, apparently, the few things which it was possible for him to do were barred, and the net result was that he ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse
... records, and rotten The meshes of memory's net; When the grace that forgives has forgotten The things that are good to forget; When the trill of my juvenile trumpet Is dead and its echoes are dead; Then the laurel shall lie on the crumpet And crown of ...
— The Battle of the Bays • Owen Seaman
... 'tis reckoned; We mourned long ago for King JAMRACH THE FIRST, Now we weep for King JAMRACH THE SECOND. There's grief at the Zoo, all the Lions bohoo, And the Elephants dolefully trumpet; The Tiger's in tears, and the lonely Koodoo With sorrow's as cold as a crumpet. He was seventy-six; but to cross o'er the Styx At that age—for a JAMRACH—was premature; There are lots of young cubs who feel quite in a fix At the thought that he will not see them mature. They howl with wide gorges to think that St. George's Will see him no more—ah! no, never! He ...
— Punch, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 • Francis Burnand
... indistinct, of which the children could only hear the words, 'Swelp me!' 'balmy,' and 'crumpet,' which conveyed no definite idea to their minds. She had taken Anthea's hand, and was holding it very firmly; and Anthea could not help wondering what would happen if Robert should have wandered off or turned his proper size during the interval. But she knew that the Psammead's ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit


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