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Crumb   /krəm/   Listen
Crumb

noun
(Written also crum)
1.
A very small quantity of something.  "There were few crumbs of comfort in the report"
2.
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.  Synonyms: bum, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot.  "Kill the rat" , "Throw the bum out" , "You cowardly little pukes!" , "The British call a contemptible person a 'git'"
3.
Small piece of e.g. bread or cake.
verb
(past & past part. crumbed; pres. part. crumbing)  (Written also crum)
1.
Coat with bread crumbs.
2.
Break into crumbs.
3.
Remove crumbs from.



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"Crumb" Quotes from Famous Books



... infant will not agree with another. (1) The one that I have found the most generally useful, is made as follows—Boil the crumb of bread for two hours in water, taking particular care that it does not burn, then add only a little lump-sugar (or brown sugar, if the bowels be costive), to make it palatable. When he is six or seven months old, mix ...
— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse
... Silver, smiling away, but warier than ever, his eye a mere pin-point in his big face, but gleaming like a crumb of glass. "That? Oh, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to spin out the meal, it was not yet four when the last crumb and drop had vanished; and, finding nothing else to do, they nestled down in their four corners again with the quiet melancholy of a dying day settling down on them once more. Though it was June, the land outside seemed already to take on a look of evening, ...
— The Carroll Girls • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... a crumb of cake in the house!" said Mrs. Brown one morning. "Jane's gone and there's all the sweeping to do, the baby to take care of, and three meals ...
— Pages for Laughing Eyes • Unknown
... please do try to eat a little," urged Fanny, with tears in her eyes. "What will Massa Horace say if he axes me 'bout your eatin' an' I'm 'bliged to tell him you didn't eat never a mouthful of dinner, an' likewise not the first crumb of your supper?" ...
— Holidays at Roselands • Martha Finley


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