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41crumb — [[t]krʌ̱m[/t]] crumbs 1) N COUNT: usu pl Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut it or eat it. I stood up, brushing crumbs from my trousers. 2) N COUNT: usu N of n A crumb of something, for example information …
42crumb — noun (C) 1 a very small piece of dry food, especially bread or cake: Brush the crumbs off the table. 2 crumb of comfort/hope etc a very small amount of comfort, hope etc: Marie s offer of help was our only crumb of comfort. 3 AmE old fashioned… …
43crumb — [kram] n. a repellent person. □ The old man was a real crumb and tried to cheat us. □ Mickey is a crumb, and he treats me like dirt …
44crumb — crumbable, adj. crumber, n. /krum/, n. 1. a small particle of bread, cake, etc., that has broken off. 2. a small particle or portion of anything; fragment; bit. 3. the soft inner portion of a bread (distinguished from crust). 4. crumbs, a cake… …
45crumb — 1. noun /kɹʌm/ a) A small piece of baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). The pigeons were quite happily picking at bread crumbs on the ground. b) A bit, small amount. a crumb of comfort Syn: crumbling See Also …
46Crumb, Robert — (1943 ) (USA) Underground cartoonist who established his career in the 1960s, especially featured in Snatch Comics. Perhaps the most well known of those alternative cartoonists who emerged in the 60s, much of his work takes a humorous take on… …
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47crumb — [OE] Relatives of crumb are fairly widespread in the Germanic languages – German has krume, for example, and Dutch kruim – and it is represented in some non Germanic Indo European languages, such as Greek grūméā and even Albanian grime. As these… …
48crumb — n A mean, despicable person. The dirty crumb walked out and stuck me with the tab. 1910s …
49crumb (it) — vb American to ruin, mess up. From crumble in its standard sense, reinforced by the notion of acting like a crumb (the obsolescent noun form denoting a worthless person) and by crummy. ► You crumbed the play. (House of Games, US film, David Mamet …
50crumb — noun we haven t got a crumb of evidence Syn: fragment, bit, morsel, particle, speck, scrap, shred, sliver, atom, grain, trace, tinge, mite, iota, jot, whit, ounce, scintilla, soupçon; informal smidgen …
