thinking man's crumpet
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Etymology[edit]
Coined 1960s by Frank Muir to describe Joan Bakewell, following the latter’s appearances in high-brow television discussion programmes such as BBC2's Late Night Line-Up.[1]
From crumpet (“sexually desirable woman (UK slang)”).
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Noun[edit]
thinking man's crumpet (plural thinking man's crumpets)
- (British, slang) An intelligent and good-looking woman, particularly one who has a high profile in the broadcast media.
- Joan Bakewell was famously described as "the thinking man's crumpet".
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Frequently the thinking man’s crumpet.
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- ^ An affair to remember, The Daily Telegraph, 5 October 2003.