different between crumpet vs crumple

English

Etymology

17th century, either from crompid cake (“wafer, literally, curled-up cake”), from crompid, form of crumpen (“to curl up”); cognate to crumpled. Alternate etymology is from Celtic; compare Breton krampouezh (“crepe, pancake”) and Welsh crempog (“pancake”).

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

Pronunciation

• kr?m'p?t,
• IPA^(key): /?k??mp?t/
• Rhymes: -?mp?t

Noun

crumpet (countable and uncountable, plural crumpets)

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.
2. (Britain, slang, countable, uncountable) A person (or, collectively, persons), usually female, considered sexually desirable.

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

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

Synonyms

• (sexually desirable person): See Thesaurus:beautiful person

Derived terms

• (sexually desirable person): bit of crumpet, piece of crumpet, thinking man's crumpet

Related terms

• crumple, crumpled

Translations

See also

• pikelet
• strumpet
• tart

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crumpet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Where To Buy English Crumpets In America

English

Etymology

From Middle English crumplen, cromplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen (“to curl up, crump”), from Old English crump (“bent, crooked”). Equivalent to crump +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??mp?l/
• Rhymes: -?mp?l

Noun

crumple (plural crumples)

1. A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.

Verb

crumple (third-person singular simple present crumples, present participle crumpling, simple past and past participle crumpled)

1. (transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
2. (transitive) To cause to collapse.
3. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To collapse.

Translations

Derived terms

• crumple zone

Related terms

• crumpet

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crumple”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• clumper