crumb

kɹʌm

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#1·4h ago

(figuratively) A bit, small amount.

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#2·4h ago

A small piece of any other solid substance.

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#3·4h ago

A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).

The pigeons were happily pecking at crumbs of bread on the ground.

Origin: From , cromme, crumme, crume, from , from , *krūmô, from , from to turn, bend, twist, wind. The b is unetymological, as in limb, appearing in the mid-15th century to match crumble and words like dumb, numb, thumb. Cognate with , , crumb, , , Swedish dialectal crumb, Swedish incrumbs, giblets, Icelandic crumb, Latin a little heap. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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