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crumpet

/kruhm-pit/US // ˈkrʌm pɪt //UK // (ˈkrʌmpɪt) //

小面包,小圆饼,小圆面包,小饼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chiefly British.

    • : a round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted.
    • : British Slang. a sexually attractive woman.

Examples

  • Drop that crumpet: The weirdest new narrative in American politics seeks to recast President Obama as a British monarch.

  • Breaking his crumpet is for him as bad as breaking one of his limbs.

  • What's the meaning of bric-à-brac, that mamma was talking about to Colonel Crumpet?

  • Yes, corroborated the commodore, Dickie found a dozen people who think youre dottie on the crumpet, all right.

  • Then the people feasted on blinnies—a pancake similar to the English crumpet.

  • The story will get across to the Germans in some garbled form; 'Smith off crumpet,' or something of that sort.