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 Translation for 'crumpet' from English to Albanian
NOUN   crumpet | crumpets
gurabije {f}crumpet
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Translation for 'crumpet' from English to Albanian

crumpet
gurabije {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • It can be described as a folded pancake, similar to a Scottish crumpet.
  • He quickly became popular with female viewers for his blond good looks (he was humorously dubbed "the thinking woman's crumpet" by British newspapers), his deep voice and his habit of wearing tight jeans and a sheepskin jacket.
  • A variation of pancake is the crumpet, made from a batter leavened with yeast (or with both yeast and baking powder) and fried in butter to produce a slightly raised flat cake.
  • The 'knackers crumpet' is a localised, common name referring to "Pluteus salicinus". Its use is most prominent in the North of England.
  • This relates to the old English "crumpet" meaning curve, surviving in modern English in 'crumpled' and 'crumpet' (a curved cake).

  • In British English, the thinking man's crumpet or thinking woman's crumpet is a humorous term for a person who is popular with the opposite sex because of their intelligence and their physical attractiveness.
  • Terms of endearment can lose their original meaning over the course of time: thus for example 'in the early twentieth century the word "crumpet" was used as a term of endearment by both sexes', before diminishing later into a 'term of objectification' for women.
  • Rhodes was associated with a Cooking in Schools campaign with Flora UK and appeared in television adverts for Flora margarine, some of which featured him "driving a van topped with a giant styrofoam crumpet" which were banned.
  • Lara Douglass included The Crumpet Shop's ham, egg and cheese crumpet in "Eater Seattles 2016 list of "Outstanding Egg Sandwiches in Seattle".
  • A spokesman for "FHM" described her as the "thinking man's crumpet" and a "surprise winner".

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