crummy
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i adjective
1.
Also, crumby. Slang.
a.
dirty and run-down; shabby; seedy: a crummy fleabag of a hotel.
b.
of little or no value; cheap; worthless: crummy furniture that falls apart after a month of use.
c.
wretchedly inadequate; miserable; lousy: They pay crummy salaries.
noun
2.
Railroads Slang. a caboose.
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Crummy
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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World English Dictionary
crummy1 (ˈkrʌmɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , -mier, -miest | |
| 1. | of little value; inferior; contemptible |
| 2. | unwell or depressed: to feel crummy |
| [C19: variant spelling of | |
| crummy2 (ˈkrʌmɪ) | |
| —n , pl -mies | |
| (Canadian) a lorry that carries loggers to work from their camp | |
| [probably originally meaning: makeshift camp, from | |
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Word Origin & History
crummy
1560s, "easily crumbled;" 1570s, "like bread," from crumb. The second sense probably accounts for 18c. (and later in dialects) use, of a woman, "attractively plump, full-figured, buxom." Slang meaning "shoddy, filthy, inferior, poorly made" in use by 1859, probably is from
the first sense, but influenced by crumb in its slang sense of "louse."
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Slang Dictionary
crummy definition[ˈkrəmi]and crumby
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
The mystery is why savers accepted crummy returns over long periods.
It's a crummy situation, and there's no combination of policy proposals or speeches that can get you out of it.
If a worker chooses a company with a crummy retirement plan, that's the way the free market works.
The crummy part of swimming, the author notes, is that while you're doing it you can't really see much.
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