crumpet

FREQ #39973

n. 烤面饼, 头 [建] 松脆饼

发音

UK /ˈkɹʌmpɪt/

词形变化

crumpets 复数 crumpets

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.

    小圆烤饼

    烤面饼

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women.

    英国 可数 过时 俚语 不可数

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

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

  3. 3.

    The head.

    澳大利亚 英国 可数 俚语 不可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

cake

相关短语

bit of crumpet piece of crumpet thinking man's crumpet bits of crumpet pieces of crumpet

词源

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”). The sense of a “desirable woman” is attested since 1936, possibly as Cockney rhyming slang for strumpet; alternatively, compare tart (“a loose woman, a prostitute”) (itself possibly Cockney rhyming slang for heart or sweetheart). Note that muffin has a similar sense, and that, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Muffins and crumpets was a familiar street-cry in the UK.

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