crumb
21crumb — [[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 …
22crumb — 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… …
23crumb — [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 …
24crumb — 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… …
25crumb — 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 …
26crumb — [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… …
27crumb — n A mean, despicable person. The dirty crumb walked out and stuck me with the tab. 1910s …
28crumb (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 …
29crumb — 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 …
30crumb — n bit, fragment, particle, mite, morsel; nip, pinch, nibble, bite, snatch; speck, trifle, scrap, shred, fritter, little crumb, tiny bit, Baby Talk. teensy weensy bit; snip, snippet, sliver, splinter, seed, grain; dot, dab, soupcon, minim; atom,… …
