Definitions
a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle
Word origin
First appears c. the 17th century, either from crompid cake (“wafer, literally, curled-up cake”), from crompid, form of crumpen (“to curl up”); cognate to crumpled. An alternate etymology is from Celtic; compare Breton krampouezh (“crepe, pancake”) and Welsh crempog (“pancake”).
Used in a sentence
“Joan Bakewell was famously described as "the thinking man's crumpet".”
“John and his mates have gone out to find themselves some crumpet.”
“The regulars are all guys, a varied selection, my friends. There's Sammy—small, wiry, dark-haired. A hat manufacturer, crumpet mad—always chatting up different birds.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Griddle cake”7 letters
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