crumb

¹crumb

noun \ˈkrəm\

Definition of CRUMB

1

a : a small fragment especially of something baked (as bread)

b : a porous aggregate of soil particles

2

: bit <a crumb of good news>

3

: the soft part of bread

4

slang : a worthless person

Examples of CRUMB

1. He swept the crumbs from under the table.
2. <a neglected dog who is desperate for any crumb of affection he might get from strangers>

Origin of CRUMB

Middle English crumme, from Old English cruma; akin to Middle High German krume crumb

First Known Use: before 12th century

Related to CRUMB

Synonyms

ace, bit, particle, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, little, mite, nip, ounce, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smack, smell, smidgen (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), snap, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, splash, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, touch, trace

Related Words

hoot, iota, jot, minim, minimum, modicum, semblance, syllable, tittle, vestige, whit; atom, dot, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, patch, scrap; dash, drop, pinch; part, portion, section; bite, nibble, taste; handful, scattering, smatter, smattering; dose, shot; chip, flake, fragment, shard, shiver, sliver, smithereens, splinter; shred, tatter; clipping, paring, shaving

Near Antonyms

abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealth; volume; bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus; chunk, hunk, lump, slab

Rhymes with CRUMB

bum, chum, come, cum, drum, dumb, from, glum, gum, hum, lum, mum, numb, plum, plumb, rum, scrum, scum, slum, some, strum, sum, them, thrum, thumb

²crumb

transitive verb

Definition of CRUMB

1

: to break into crumbs

2

: to cover or thicken with crumbs

3

: to remove crumbs from <crumb a table>

First Known Use of CRUMB

14th century

Crumb

biographical name \ˈkrəm\

Definition of CRUMB

George Henry 1929–     Am. composer