crumb

[ kruhm ]

/ krʌm /

noun

a 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)

Cookery. to dress or prepare with crumbs.

to break into crumbs or small fragments.

to remove crumbs from: The waiter crumbed the table.

Origin of crumb

before 1000; Middle English crome, crume, Old English cruma; akin to Dutch kruim, German Krume crumb, Latin grūmus heap of earth

SYNONYMS FOR crumb

2 scrap, shred, morsel, sliver, speck.

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OTHER WORDS FROM crumb

crumb·a·ble, adjective crumb·er, noun de·crumb, verb (used with object)

Words nearby crumb

cruiserweight, cruiseway, cruising radius, cruizie, cruller, crumb, crumble, crumblings, crumbly, crumbs, crumbum

Example sentences from the Web for crumb

In 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

crumb

/ (krʌm) /

noun

a small fragment of bread, cake, or other baked foods

a small piece or bit crumbs 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 crumb

crumber, noun

Word Origin for crumb

Old English cruma; related to Middle Dutch krome, Middle High German krūme, Latin grūmus heap of earth

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crumb

noun

verb (used with object)

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noun

verb

adjective

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crumb

noun

verb (used with object)

Origin of crumb

SYNONYMS FOR crumb

OTHER WORDS FROM crumb

Words nearby crumb

Words related to crumb

Example sentences from the Web for crumb

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