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[ kruhm ] / krʌm / SEE SYNONYMS FOR crumb ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna small particle of bread, cake, etc., that has broken off. a small particle or portion of anything; fragment; bit. the soft inner portion of a bread (distinguished from crust). crumbs, a cake topping made of sugar, flour, butter, and spice, usually crumbled on top of the raw batter and baked with the cake. Slang. a contemptibly objectionable or worthless person. verb (used with object)Cooking. to dress or prepare with crumbs. to break into crumbs or small fragments. to remove crumbs from: The waiter crumbed the table. Origin of crumbbefore 1000; Middle English crome, crume,Old English cruma; akin to Dutch kruim,German Krume crumb, Latin grūmus heap of earth SYNONYMS FOR crumb2 scrap, shred, morsel, sliver, speck. SEE SYNONYMS FOR crumb ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM crumbcrumb·a·ble, adjectivecrumber, nounde·crumb, verb (used with object)Words nearby crumbcruise ship, cruiseway, cruising radius, cruizie, cruller, crumb, crumble, crumblings, crumbly, crumbs, crumbum Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for crumbIn a formal mood, we may even use a fork to eat a slice of cake, crumb by crumb. The Strange Way We Eat: Bee Wilson’s ‘Consider the Fork’|Bee Wilson|October 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST Pour the mixture onto the crumb base and place the tin on a cookie sheet. Foods That We Love But Shouldn’t|Lydia Brownlow|July 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST The rats ate up every crumb, regardless of the significance. LeBron James, the Most Hated Athlete in America|Buzz Bissinger|June 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST I could turn the crumb round and let you get it, but you shall take it properly in your hand. The Dingo Boys|G. Manville Fenn
Poor Wapaw had already searched his wallet and firebag twice, without finding a crumb of food or a morsel of tobacco. Silver Lake|R.M. Ballantyne Why should they have come at all to a place that could not contain a crumb of food, except the scanty supply that he had brought? The Copper Princess|Kirk Munroe The simplest way of making a socle is to take a loaf of stale bread, remove the crust, and cut the crumb to the desired shape. The Century Cook Book|Mary Ronald Fix the lace in a frame, and rub it with Crumb of stale Bread, which afterwards dust out. The Toilet of Flora|Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz
British Dictionary definitions for crumb
nouna small fragment of bread, cake, or other baked foods a small piece or bitcrumbs of information the soft inner part of bread slang a contemptible person verb(tr) to prepare or cover (food) with breadcrumbs to break into small fragments adjective(esp of pie crusts) made with a mixture of biscuit crumbs, sugar, etc Derived forms of crumbcrumber, nounWord Origin for crumbOld English cruma; related to Middle Dutch krome, Middle High German krūme, Latin grūmus heap of earth Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to crumbsnippet, jot, speck, dab, pinch, scrap, drop, particle, dash, dram, atom, shred, grain, seed, mite, smidgen, iota, sliver, ounce, soupçon |