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单词 crumb
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crumbn.

Brit. /krʌm/, U.S. /krəm/
Forms: Old English cruma, Middle English–1500s cromme, Middle English–1600s crumme, Middle English–1500s crome, Middle English crom, crume, crwme, Middle English–1500s crowm(e, 1500s crumbe, 1600s crumm, Middle English– crum, 1600s– crumb.
Etymology: Old English cruma (masculine), related to Middle Dutch crūme (feminine), Dutch kruim, Middle Low German krōme, Low German krȫme, modern German krume, these having the vowel long. The ulterior derivation is obscure. The merely graphic b began to be added in the 16th cent.; but crum continued to be the prevalent form to the end of the 18th cent., and is recognized in 19th cent. Dictionaries. Johnson has crum, crumb. The b probably appeared first in the derivative crumble (where it has also invaded the pronunciation), after words of French origin like humble; there was also the apparent analogy of Old English words like dumb, where b was retained in the spelling, though no longer pronounced: compare thumb.
1.
a. A small particle of bread (or other friable food), such as breaks or falls off by rubbing, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > small quantity
breadeOE
crumbc975
snedec1000
snodec1150
morselc1300
swallow1340
modicumc1400
mouthful?c1450
tasting1526
taste1530
buckone1625
morceau1778
rive1793
nibble?1828
munchet1845
moufful1896
niblet1896
snade1901
nugget1951
nibbly1978
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > piece of bread > [noun] > bread-crumbs > a crumb
crumbc975
bread flake1882
c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xv. 27 Welpas ek etaþ of cromum þe þe falleþ of beode.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 27 Þa hwelpas etað of þam crumum.
a1110 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 330/13 Mica cruma.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1474 Laf Þatt iss wiþþ utenn crummess.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 6645 To ete hys fylle of þe crummes.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 59 A crumme of breed.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6758 All Northumbirlande prouynce He thoght as croms of bred to mynce.
1548 Order of Communion sig. C.i We bee not worthye..to gather vp the crommes vnder thy table.
1568 Bible (Bishops') Mark vii. 28 The childrens crumbes.
1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 472 Every crumme we put in our mouthes.
1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 206 The Redbreast..hops round the house, picks up crumbs.
1829 G. R. Gleig Chelsea Pensioners (1840) 207 A few crums which remained in our havresacks.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xi. 218 We feed it with the crumbs from our table.
b. A small particle of anything; a grain, as of dust. Obsolete exc. dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a particle
grotc888
crumba1387
motec1390
particlea1398
pointa1400
specka1400
atomy1584
moment1594
dust1597
pickle1604
mite1605
atom1626
iota1636
ramentum1658
bodikin1668
part1669
dustling1674
scintilla1674
minim1686
fleck1753
molecule1799
heartbeat1855
particule1889
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 399 Was neuere founde gobet noþer cromme.
c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. cxxiv. xii [He]..for his workes and buyldynges held eche crome.
1560 P. Whitehorne tr. N. Macchiavelli Art of Warre (1573) Litle peeces or crummes of pitche.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. iv. 369 To leave no crumme of dust behind.
1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 71 Softly rest all thy Virgin-Crums!
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xiv. 114 His eye..gleaming like a crumb of glass.
c. One of the irregularly-shaped and highly porous aggregates of particles found in soil having a crumb structure. (Cf. sense 3b.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > aggregate
crumb1906
crumb structure1906
ped1951
19061 [see crumb structure n. at Compounds 2].
1914 T. L. Lyon et al. Soils (1920) vii. 109 The soil particles are not homogeneous as to size, and neither do all the particles function as simple grains, being gathered together in groups called granules, or crumbs.
1961 J. MacBean Soil iii. 34 Clay soils which are treated with lime to allow of the flocculation or grouping together of the single particles into crumbs..are warmer and more easily worked.
d. In rayon manufacture (see quots.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > man-made textiles > particles of
crumb1927
1927 M. H. Avram Rayon Industry 259 Following the steeping operation the blocks of alkali-cellulose are shredded. In this operation, which is usually carried out in a machine called a shredder or disintegrator, the cellulose is reduced to very finely divided particles called crumbs.
1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses vi. 54 The action of the internal parts of the kneader breaks up the [alkali-cellulose] sheets effectively into small particles similar to small breadcrumbs, and hence these particles are called ‘crumbs’.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. V. 643/2 Viscose process... The crumbs are placed in churns where the action of carbon disulphide causes the alkali-cellulose to change to cellulose xanthate.
2. figurative.
a. A very small particle or portion (of something immaterial), a ‘scrap’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a very small amount
shredc1000
farthingsworthc1325
pennyworthc1330
incha1350
sliverc1374
chipa1393
gnastc1440
Jack1530
spoonful1531
crumba1535
spark1548
slight1549
pin's worth1562
scruple1574
thought1581
pinch1583
scrap1583
splinter1609
ticket1634
notchet1637
indivisible1644
tinyc1650
twopence1691
turn of the scale(s)1706
enough to swear by1756
touch1786
scrimptiona1825
infinitesimal1840
smidgen1841
snuff1842
fluxion1846
smitchel1856
eyelash1860
smidge1866
tenpenceworth1896
whisker1913
tidge1986
a1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 408 [Not] one crum of merit.
1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 225 Some cromme of charitie within them.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Berks. 95 This their Clock gathering up the least Crume of Time.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 76 To beg Some Crumbs of Comfort.
1801 W. Scott Let. 11 May (1932) I. 114 I think I could give you some more crumbs of information were I at home.
1890 Dict. National Biogr. XXII. 339 Claverhouse's only crumb of comfort was that he saved the standards.
b. A body-louse. U.S. slang.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Siphunculata > member of genus Pediculus (louse) > pediculus corporis (body-louse)
body louse1545
crumb1863
typhus louse1910
coot1915
cootie1917
pants rabbits1917
1863 O. W. Norton Army Lett. (1903) 175 Fortunately, I am not troubled with the ‘crumbs’ now.
1898 Scribner's Mag. Apr. 440/1 Just then I felt something crawling on my neck. It was a crumb.
1925 G. H. Mullin Adventures Scholar Tramp iii. 46 If there is crumbs hoppin' around on me, I don't want to encourage 'em too much.
c. A lousy or filthy person; an objectionable, worthless, or insignificant person. slang (originally U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun]
mesela1400
scabbardc1440
slotterbugc1440
drivel1498
sow1508
wallydraigle?a1513
sloven1530
filthy1553
ketterela1572
slabberer1611
slubberdegullion1612
Grobian1621
slabberdegullion1653
slobber-chops1670
slate1718
haverel1720
slobberer1732
slummock1760
fleabag1805
slush1825
slob1876
trashbag1887
crumb1918
garbage can1925
hog1932
crud1940
sordid1959
grot1970
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > worthless
chaffc1386
noughta1400
noughtinga1500
trifle?a1500
undought1508
wallydraigle?a1513
jackstraw1565
oatmeal-groat1594
trasha1616
Jack-of-strawa1625
little worth1823
wanworth1832
shicer1846
nowt1847
no good1871
two-spot1885
cannon fodder1917
crumb1918
no-gooder1936
nogoodnik1936
schmatte1967
1918 H. M. Rideout Key of Fields 236 A couple of crumbs want to kill you.
1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves iii. 83 This old crumb would be the occupant of the bed which I was proposing to prod with darning-needles.
1959 D. Barton Loving Cup 236 He's an absolute crumb called Stuart Rowlandson.
1970 Women Speaking Apr. 5/1 If a man doesn't like a girl's looks or personality, she's a..crumb.
3.
a. The inner part of a loaf, not hardened in baking, and capable of being easily crumbled; the soft part of bread. Opposed to crust.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > crumb of loaf
pith?c1425
crumbc1430
breadcrumb1656
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. xli. 25 I entermeted me neuere to make cruste ne cromme.
c1440 Anc. Cookery in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 441 Pare away the cruste, and stepe the crome in vynegur.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 192 He that keepes neither crust nor crum . View more context for this quotation
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 32 a Make them thin, that they may have the more Crust and the less Crum.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 174 Taking the bread 1/ 6 crust and 5/ 6 crumb.
b. transferred. Loosened and crumbled earth.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > light or loose soil
mouldeOE
crumb1807
hover1851
1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) I. 16 It will give as much mould, or crumb, in the harrow, as any other furrow.
1881 C. Whitehead Hops 45 There should be a good tilth, or crumb, at least a foot deep.
c. slang. Plumpness. Cf. crummy adj. 3.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > state of having
fatnessc1000
greasea1340
corsiousnessc1440
fleshiness1541
plumpness1545
corporateness1547
fogginess1547
fleshliness1552
corpulency1577
corpulence1581
corsiness1587
fullness1599
obesity1611
pinguitude1623
obeseness1653
aletude1656
portliness1658
eventriqueness1667
rotundity1684
fat1726
rotundness1727
bloatedness1732
embonpoint1751
roundness1763
repleteness1770
plumpitude1828
corporosity1837
stoutness1838
crumb1843
plumptitude1843
roundedness1849
chubbiness1850
adiposeness1868
roundliness1870
buxomness1875
bloat1905
tubbiness1906
poundage1915
overweight1917
endomorphy1940
plumpishness1947
pudge1967
morbid obesity1969
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxix. 345 ‘Too much crumb, you know,’ said Mr. Bailey; ‘too fat, Poll.’
4. to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs: to ‘pick up’ or recover strength or health; to improve in condition. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)]
wholeeOE
botenc1225
cover1297
amendc1325
recovera1375
warisha1386
recovera1387
healc1390
recurec1400
soundc1402
mendc1440
convalesce1483
guarish1489
restore1494
refete?a1505
revert1531
to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs1589
cure1597
recruit1644
to perk upa1656
retrieve1675
to pick up1740
to leave one's bed1742
to sit up and take nourishment1796
to get round1798
to come round1818
to pull through1830
rally1831
to fetch round1870
to mend up1877
to pull round1889
recoup1896
recuperate1897
1589 A. Ingram Let. 9 Sept. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 819 Our men began to gather vp their crums and to recouer some better strength.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. i. 1 Thanke God I..am recovering and picking up my crummes apace.
1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) To Pick up One's Crums, to gather strength.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvii. 294 The Boston boy..had ‘picked up his crumbs’, was..getting strength and confidence daily.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) A person or animal improving in appearance is said to be picking up his crumbs.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
crumb-catching adj.
ΚΠ
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse Ep. Ded. ⁋3 b Sycophants and crum-catching parasites.
C2.
crumb-brush n. a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > brush or broom
besomc1000
bast broom1357
brush1377
broom14..
sweepc1475
duster1575
bristle brush1601
broom-besom1693
flag-broom1697
stock-brush1700
whisk1745
birch-broom1747
hair-broom1753
spry1796
corn-broomc1810
pope's head1824
whisker1825
sweeping-brusha1828
swish1844
spoke-brush1851
whisk broom1857
Turk's head1859
wisp1875
tube-brush1877
bass-broom?1881
crumb-brush1884
dusting-brush1907
palmetto brush1913
suede brush1915
swale1949
1884 Hugh Conway in Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 176/1 Whittaker came in with the crumb brush.
crumb-cloth n. a cloth laid under a table to catch the crumbs and keep the carpet clean; sometimes laid over the greater part of a carpet.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > miscellaneous articles to protect from dirt > [noun]
crumb-cloth1843
wrapper1847
dust-sheet1854
1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 196 The crumb cloth of the library.
1864 E. A. Murray Ella Norman I. 6 A rich carpet, covered by a linen crumb-cloth.
crumb rubber n.
ΚΠ
1956 Gloss. Terms Rubber & Rubber-like Materials (ASTM Spec. Techn. Publ. No. 184) 28 Crumb rubber. When vulcanized rubber is milled, it does not become soft and plastic but forms a type of material known as crumb or spring rubber.
1957 Times 20 Dec. 17/6 Output of reclaim and crumb rubber for the 12 months was approximately 7 per cent. higher.
crumb structure n. [translating German krümelstruktur (E. Wollny 1882, in Forsch. auf d. Geb. d. Agrik.-Physik V. 146)] the condition of soil when its particles are aggregated into crumbs (sense 1c).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > aggregate
crumb1906
crumb structure1906
ped1951
1906 E. W. Hilgard Soils vii. 109 The word ‘Krümelstructur’ (crumb-structure), adopted by Wollny for this phenomenon, has both fitness and priority in its favor.
1906 E. W. Hilgard Soils vii. 110 Clay is most frequently the substance which imparts at least temporary stability to the crumbs and crumb-structure.
1926 A. G. Tansley & T. F. Chipp Aims & Methods Study Vegetation vii. 116 The ‘primary’ inorganic particles of soil show a tendency to aggregate into ‘compound particles’... This ‘crumb structure’ ..is found in all good agricultural and good forest soils.
1960 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) xi. 96 It is mainly the maintenance of this soil-structure, especially this crumb structure, which the farmer means when he talks about..‘maintaining a fine tilth’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

crumbcrumadj.

Forms: Also Middle English croume, 1800s dialect crum, crom.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: A common West Germanic adjective: Old English crumb = Old Frisian krumb (East Frisian krum , -mme ), Old Saxon crumb (Middle Low German krum , -mme , Low German krumm ); Middle Dutch cromp , -be , crom(m (Danish krom ), Old High German chrump , -be (Middle High German krump , -be , German 16–17th cent. krumb , modern German krumm , Upper German dialect krump ) crooked < Old Germanic type *krumbo- , < krimb- , kramb , krumb- to press, squeeze, compress: see cramp n.1 Compare also Irish cróm , Welsh crom , crooked, bent. This adjective, so important in German and Dutch, has had very little development in English, its place being taken by the kindred crump n.2; it survives to a slight extent dialectally as crum , crom crooked, and in the derivatives crum , crom verb (see crumb v.2), cromster, crummie.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
Crooked.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > crooked
wough862
crumba1100
wrongc1175
crooked?c1225
crochedc1300
forcrookedc1305
miscrookeda1398
crumpleda1400
kirkeda1425
camshoch1513
crooken1589
awry1728
thraward1814
ajee1816
ahoo1828
crinkly-crankly1850
unstraight1860
cockeye1891
cockeyed1899
crookedy1907
a1100 Misc. Glosses in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 514/14 Obunca þa crumban.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9207 & all þatt ohht iss wrang & crumb Shall effnedd beon. & rihhtedd.
c1425 Seuyn Sag. (Wr.) 2477 With a lytil croume knyfe.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 32 Crom, crooked: (1) as ‘The man hiz crom finger’. (2) Very frequently prefixed..as, crom-taet[-toed], a crom-fingert, crom-leggit.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Crum-horn't.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

crumbcrumv.1

Brit. /krʌm/, U.S. /krəm/
Forms: Middle English croume, Middle English–1500s crumm(e, crume, crome, 1500s cromme, 1500s–1600s crum, 1600s– crumb.
Etymology: < crumb n. There was an earlier umlaut form crim v. ( < crymman), cream, still in dialect use.
1. transitive. To break down into crumbs or small fragments, reduce to crumbs. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crumble
crumbc1430
offe?1440
undurec1440
crima1450
crumblea1475
murla1525
mool1595
shatter1891
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xxxiii. 194 As me þouhte, she bar mete croumed vp on parchemyn.
1564 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge xxii. f. 183v As if the bread be so small crommed into dust, and the wine dispersed.
1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 201 Heate them..before you crume in the bread.
a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iv. iv. sig. K1 Crum not your bread before you taste your porridge.
1882 Worcs. Exhib. Catal. iii. 38 Machine for crumbing bread.
2. intransitive. To fall into crumbs; to crumble. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > crumble
grushc1420
crumb1546
crumble1577
shalder1577
murl1600
slack1700
shatter1733
fall1743
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iiii A mud wall..Cracketh and crummeth in peeces.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 634 Ground..that..being troden on, crummeth like white lyme.
18.. R. Southey (F. Hall).
3. transitive. To put crumbs into or over; to thicken or cover with crumbs.See crim v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > garnish [verb (transitive)] > cover with crumbs
crima1450
crumb1579
bread?1600
breadcrumb1817
to egg and crumb1834
gratiné1978
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 377 As for his bare bread, let him keepe to crome his pottage.
1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant i. i. 8 Last night good Mrs. Bibber..crumm'd me a Mess of gruel.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 133 A Dish of Milk well crumbed . View more context for this quotation
1864 Mrs. H. Wood Trevlyn Hold III. ix. 131 To see a sweetbread egged and crumbed.

Derivatives

crumbed adj.
ΚΠ
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 55 Melle yt with cromyd Marow, & lay on Sugre y-now.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

crumbcrumv.2

Forms: Also Middle English crom-in, 1800s dialect crom.
Etymology: < crumb adj. Not recorded in Old English, but compare Old Saxon crumban, Middle Low German krummen, Dutch krommen, Old High German chrumbian, Middle High German krumben, German krümmen to make crooked, to crook; also Middle High German krumben, German dialect krummen, to become crooked, < the corresponding adjective crumb, see above.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
transitive. To make crooked or curved; to crook, bend.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > curve or bend [verb (transitive)]
beyc888
bowa1300
incrooka1340
inbowa1382
crook1382
plya1393
inflectc1425
courbe1430
wryc1450
cralla1475
crumbc1490
bought1521
compass1542
incurvate1578
ploy1578
incurve1610
curve1615
circumflex1649
wheel1656
curb1662
crumpa1821
curvaturec1933
c1490 Promptorium Parvulorum 104 (MSS. K., H.) Cromyn [v.r. crokyn], unco.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 32 Crom, to double, ‘The tinker crommt up 's leg’.

Derivatives

crummet adj. (also crum't, crommt) [German gekrümmt] Scottish crooked, crooked-horned.
ΚΠ
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 51 (Jam.) Spying an unco crummet beast.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 32 Crommt, crooked; [also] same as crummie.
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