Crumb

Definition: Crumb

Crumb

Noun

1. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!".

2. Small piece of e.g. bread or cake.

Verb

1. Coat with bread crumbs: "crumb a cutlet".

2. Break into crumbs.

3. Remove crumbs from: "crumb the table".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crumb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Crumb

Pulverulence

Powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle. (smallness); limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder; flocculi.

Relief

Lenitive, restorative; (remedy); cushion; crumb of comfort, balm in Gilead.

Smallness

Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Crumb

When the world, wouldn't throw me a crumb, no no (Taking You Home; performing artist: Don Henley)

But you won't get a crumb from me (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

Picking up every last crumb (Optimistic; performing artist: Radiohead)

A crumb from a winner's table is better than a feast from a loser's table! (references; author: unknown)

Crumb Bumming (1965)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Crumb Family Comic (reference)

• R. Crumb Draws the Blues (reference)

• The Complete Crumb Comics, Volume 15 (reference)

• The Complete Crumb: R. Crumb Versus the Sisterhood (reference)

• The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Crumb (reference)

• The Confessions of Robert Crumb (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• George Crumb 70th Birthday Album (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Norpro Bread Slicer with Crumb Catcher (reference)

• OXO Good Grips Crumb Sweeper (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

(2) color slides show different breakfast danish, each single slice. (1) apple crumb danish (single slice), (1) cherry danish (single slice). Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "crumb": a crumb of truth ♦ bread crumb ♦ crumb brush ♦ crumb cake ♦ crumb of comfort ♦ crumb of the loaf ♦ the crumb of the loaf. Additional references.

Beginning with "crumb": crumb-collection, crumb-patch, crumb-scattered, crumb-spreading, crumb-structure.

Ending with "crumb": bread-crumb, inter-crumb.

Albanian

tul (beef, pulp, thick), thërrmoj (comminute, crumble, crush, fritter, mince, pestle), thërrime, një grimë, një çikë (bit, dab, little, pinch, soupcon), grimcë (corpuscle, grain, granule, mote, particle, tiny bit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتت (break up, crumble, flake, fragment, fragmentize, fritter), ‏كسرة خبز (bread), ‏كسرة (bit, fraction, fragment, morsel, scrap, small piece), ‏مقدار ضئيل (dab, dash, dribble, element, glimmer, hint, mouthful, nip, peanut, smack, trace, trifle, whit), ‏لب الخبز, ‏شخص تافه (bauble, black sheep, bugger, deformity, dog, insect, morsel, myrmidon, nitwit, peanut, pipsqueak, rag, sprat, swab, toad, trash). (various references)

Bulgarian 

среда на хляб, троха (lick), троша (crumble, knap). (various references)

Chinese 

面包屑. (various references)

Czech

střídka, drobek (jot), drobeèek (minikin, mite). (various references)

Danish

krumme (granule), granula (granule, granules). (various references)

Dutch

kruimel (granule), broodkruimel. (various references)

Esperanto

panero. (various references)

Faeroese

breyðmoli. (various references)

Farsi 

هرچیزی شبیه خرده نان(مثل خاک نرم), خرده نان , خرده (Bit, Bittock, Debris, Fragment, Glimmer, Grain, Jot, Nip, Particle, Shred, Small, Vestige, Weeny, Whit). (various references)

Finnish

muru (granule). (various references)

French

miette (crumble), mie. (various references)

German

krümel (small crumb), krume, Brosame. (various references)

Greek 

ψίχα (kernel, pith), ψίχουλο (bit). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפתפת (mash), לפרפר (flutter, fly, hover, jerk, palpitate, quiver, struggle, twitch), לפספס (botch, lose, miss the target, muff, separate), פתית (flake, floccule), פתות, פת (bread, morsel). (various references)

Hungarian

morzsa (morsel, the crumb of the loaf), kenyérbél. (various references)

Indonesian

serpihan, remah-remah. (various references)

Italian

sbriciolare (crumble), mollica (bread crumb), minuzzolo (chip), impanare (bread), grumo (blob, clot, dollop, lump), granulo (granule, granules), glomerulo (cluster, glomerule, granule), briciola (bread crumb, modicum, small crumb). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

パン屑 , 断片 (bits and pieces, fragment, shred). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パンくず, � �"ぺ�" (bits and pieces, fragment, shell or bullet fragment, shrapnel, shred). (various references)

Korean 

�"스라기. (various references)

Manx

kyneen (morsel), kinneig (breadcrumb, paring, particle, scraping), jannoo kinneigyn jeh, cur kinneigyn er. (various references)

Norwegian

smule. (various references)

Pig Latin

umbcray

Portuguese

miolo (bread crumb, core, kernel, nucleus), grumo (grume), grânulo (bead, pearl), fragmento (cantle, catch, end, fraction, fragmemt, fritter, lump, part, patch, piece, scrap, shatter, shiver, snatch, snippet, splinter, tear), fração (fraction, fragment, part, portion, quantum, side, subdivision, tithe), agregação grumosa, aglomerado (agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomeration, aggregation, conglomerate, glomerate). (various references)

Romanian

pic (a wee bit, atom, bead, bit, dash, drop, jot, pennyworth, pick, spark, spot, sprinkle, touch, whit), miez de pâine, gâgâlice (dandiprat, dumpy, hop-o'-my-thumb, trifle, whipper-snapper), fãrâmiturã, fãrâmãturã, fãrâmã (atom, bit, chip, element, fleck, fragment, morsel, particle, scrap, smithereens, speck, whit), dumica (chop up, crumble, cut into pieces, destroy, dismember). (various references)

Russian 

крупица (scintilla, scintillae), крошка (poppet), крошить (chop up, fritter, mince, mincing), мякиш. (various references)

Scottish

spronnan (a crumb), brusg (a crumb). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trunka (bit, dollop, grain, scintilla, shred, sprinkling, whit), mrvica. (various references)

Spanish

porción (dollop, dosage, lot, Pat, portion, slice, wedge, whack), parte (allotment, bit, Cantel, Cantle, communique, component, deal, despatch, detail, device, dial, dispatch, district, doormat, element, end, episode, faction, fragmemt, granule, kernel, lieu, lot, part, Parthian, partition, party, patch, percentage, piece, place, point, portion, proportion, quantum, report, role, section, share, side, slice, some, spot, substance, the part, way, whack), migaja (grated(shredded)tuna), miga (substance), la miga, grumo (clot, grume, lump), granulo (granule). (various references)

Swedish

smula (atom, Dot, dribblet, fragment, modicum, morsel, pittance, scantling, scraps, shade, sprinkle, tot). (various references)

Turkish

zerre (atom, corpuscle, corpuscule, grain, granule, iota, jot, mite, molecule, monad, mote, particle, rap, Ray, scintilla, shadow, sparklet, speck, tittle, touch, vestige, whit), ufalamak (break up, chaff, chip off, comminute, crumble, pulverize, scrap), kırıntı (bit, chip, debris, fragment, ort, piece, scrap, scraps, sweeps), galetaya bulamak, değersiz kimse. (various references)

Turkmen 

owuntyk. (various references)

Ukrainian

частка (allotment, ante, contingent, deal, detail, divvy, dose, draught, fraction, lobe, particle, portion, quantity, quota, quotient, shred, slice), крихтка, м'якушка. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tý (atom), miếng (cantle, morsel, piece, sliver), mẩu ruột bánh mì, mẫu (design, model, sample, scantling, specimen). (various references)

Welsh

mwyd (pith, pulp), briwsionyn. (various references)

frusta, mica, micha, michae, micham, michas, micis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crumb": crumbed, crumber, crumbers, crumbier, crumbiest, crumbing, crumble, crumbled, crumbles, crumblier, crumbliest, crumbliness, crumblinesses, crumbling, crumblings, crumbly, crumbs, crumbum, crumbums, crumby. (additional references)

Words ending with "crumb": breadcrumb. (additional references)

Words containing "crumb": breadcrumbs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crumb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carumba, chromb, clumb, Coromba, Coumba, Cromb, crub, Cruibh, crume, crums, crun, cumb, cumm, Drumbo, rumb. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: curb.

-2 letters: bum, bur, cub, cum, cur, rub, rum, urb.

-3 letters: mu, um.

+1 letter: crumbs, crumby, cumber.

+2 letters: buckram, clumber, crumbed, crumber, crumble, crumbly, crumbum, cumbers.

+3 letters: brachium, buckrams, cerebrum, cherubim, ciborium, clubroom, clumbers, crumbers, crumbier, crumbing, crumbled, crumbles, crumbums, cubiform, cucumber, cumbered, cumberer, cumbrous, encumber, incumber, microbus.

+4 letters: ambulacra, bacterium, bronchium, buckramed, cerebrums, cherubims, clubrooms, combustor, crumbiest, crumblier, crumbling, cucumbers, cumberers, cumbering, currycomb, encumbers, incumbers, recumbent, submicron.