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Meanings of crumpet in English

English muffin.

Usage of crumpet in English
1
I say, old crumpet, did my uncle seem pleased to see you?
Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories
2
The poor dear is nearly balmy in the crumpet from worry.
The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great "White Way"
3
Miss Townly went into a very large arm-chair and waveringly selected a crumpet.
The Call of the Blood
4
Her hesitation caused him to neglect his crumpet, to look up at her.
T. Tembarom
5
If you want to go home to the crumpet, get between us and limp.
Atonement
6
I did have a crumpet, though, because you can take professional paranoia too far.
Foxglove Summer
7
She fed me some crumpet and I asked her why she didn't have a TV.
Moon Over Soho
8
She takes the crumpet, does Lady Bullingdon at Penge.
Manalive
9
I didn't want another crumpet, but I sat down.
For whom the minivan rolls: an aaron tucker mystery
10
Got a crumpet or a butter roll anywhere, Cherryvery?
Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
11
Writers favorite phrase in Roget's book is "balmy in the crumpet."
The new yorker
12
Here the preparations for tea were crowned by the simultaneous appearance of Lizzie and the crumpet.
Scenes of Clerical Life
13
Corporal Nettle said, "It don't show crumpet, that map."
Atonement
14
She talks to Ian Kilroy Ten years ago, she was described as "the thinking man's crumpet".
The Irish Times
15
He began a rambling eulogy of what he called "Frog crumpet"-howplentiful, how available, how delicious.
Atonement
16
Just then our shop bell rang and a young woman with fluffy, crumpet-colored curls walked across our main floor.
Roast mortem
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