Crumpets are round, flat pieces of a substance like bread or batter with small holes in them. You toast them and eat them with butter
crumpets
Etymologie
[ 'kr&m-p&t ] (noun.) 1769. perhaps from Middle English crompid wafer, literally, curled-up cake, from crumped, past participle of crumpen to curl up, from crump, crumb crooked, from Old English crumb; akin to Old High German krump crooked.