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▪ I. † crim, v. Obs. or dial.
In 5 kreme, kryme, 6 crym(me, 8 cream.
[The form would be satisfied by an OE. *crymman:—*krumjan, f. cruma, crumb, n., q.v.]
trans. To crumble (bread, etc.); to scatter crumbs upon or into (a dish). b. intr. To crumble, fall to pieces.
c1430Two Cookery-bks. 35 Take hard ȝolkys of Eyroun, & kryme a gode quantyte þer-to. 1530Palsgr. 501/2, I crym breed into a dysshe..Thou haste eaten thy potage or I can crymme my dyssche. 1736Pegge Kenticisms, Cream, to crumble. Hops, when they are too much dried, are said to cream, i.e. to crumble to pieces. ‘To cream one's dish’, to put the bread into it, in order to pour the milk upon it. 1880in Parish & Shaw Kentish Gloss. (? from Pegge).
▪ II. crim, n. U.S. and Austral. slang
abbrev. of criminal n. 2.
1909in Webster. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxii. 212 Some of the fellow crims remarked on it in filthy language. 1970Tel. (Brisbane) 29 June 4/1 (headline) Crims ‘in turmoil’. |