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crumb

[kruhm]
–noun
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 topping made of sugar, flour, butter, and spice, usually crumbled on top of the raw batter and baked with the cake.
5. Slang. a contemptibly objectionable or worthless person.
–verb (used with object)
6. Cookery. to dress or prepare with crumbs.
7. to break into crumbs or small fragments.
8. to remove crumbs from: The waiter crumbed the table.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME crome, crume, OE cruma; akin to D kruim, G Krume crumb, L grūmus heap of earth


crumb⋅a⋅ble, adjective
crumber, noun


2. scrap, shred, morsel, sliver, speck.
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crumb [krəm]

  1. n.
    a repellent person. (From an old slang word for a body louse. Most of the crum(b) entries refer to lice or lousy.) : The old man was a real crumb and tried to cheat us.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

crumb 
O.E. cruma, from a W.Gmc. root of obscure origin. The -b- appeared c.1450, in part by analogy with words like dumb, in part from crumble (q.v.). Slang meaning "lousy person" is 1918, from crumb, U.S. slang for "body-louse" (1863), so called from resemblance.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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