Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A very small piece broken from a baked item, such as a cookie, cake, or bread.
- noun A small fragment, scrap, or portion.
- noun The soft inner portion of bread.
- noun Slang A contemptible, untrustworthy, or loathsome person.
- intransitive verb To break into very small pieces; crumble.
- intransitive verb To cover or prepare with very small pieces of bread.
- intransitive verb To brush (a table or cloth) clear of small scraps or fragments of food.
- intransitive verb To break apart in very small pieces.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To break into small pieces with the fingers: as, to
crumb bread into milk. - . To crumble bread into; prepare or thicken with crumbs of bread.
- In cookery, to cover or dress with breadcrumbs, as meat, etc.; bread.
- noun A morsel: specifically, a minute piece of bread or other friable food broken off, as in crumbling it; hence, a very small fragment or portion of anything.
- noun The soft inner part of a loaf of bread or cake, as distinguished from the crust.
- Same as
crump .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.
- noun Fig.: A little; a bit.
- noun The soft part of bread.
- noun a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table.
- noun with great exactness; completely.
- transitive verb To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
piece whichbreaks off frombaked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). - noun figuratively A
bit , small amount. - noun The soft internal portion of
bread , surrounded bycrust . - noun A
mixture ofsugar ,cocoa andmilk , used to makeindustrial chocolate . - noun slang A
nobody , worthless person. - noun slang A
body louse . - verb To
cover with crumbs. - verb To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to
crumble .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb break into crumbs
- verb remove crumbs from
- noun small piece of e.g. bread or cake
- noun a very small quantity of something
- verb coat with bread crumbs
- noun a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Bakers use the term crumb for this network, which constitutes the bulk of the bread or cake.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Bakers use the term crumb for this network, which constitutes the bulk of the bread or cake.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The crumb is very tight, so it tends to remind me of a pound cake in appearance, although it is much lighter.
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Especially because I am one of those cornbread fans who completely overindulges in an attempt to make sure not one single crumb is wasted.
Archive 2009-09-01 Laura 2009
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With the crumbs secured, your final layer of frosting will glide on smoothly and cleanly, without picking up a single crumb from the cake itself.
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And have an eye on the dogs lest they slobber him down by mistake as a meat-crumb from the table.
Chapter 17 2010
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Especially because I am one of those cornbread fans who completely overindulges in an attempt to make sure not one single crumb is wasted.
Cornbread Take 2: Featherbed Eggs Laura 2009
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Place the last layer cut side down on top of the cake and use the remaining buttercream to frost the sides and top (This cake is super crumbly, so I recommend doing a thin crumb coat first).
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Spoiled, greedy, selfish, North Americans, of which I am one, fearful of someone taking a crumb from a banquet table is what we are.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Illegal Immigration and the Rule of Law 2010
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Place the last layer cut side down on top of the cake and use the remaining buttercream to frost the sides and top (This cake is super crumbly, so I recommend doing a thin crumb coat first).
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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When Cadbury tried to enter the West German market in the 1960s, it decided to introduce the public to its usual crumb recipe (crumb is where fresh milk is mixed with chocolate and sugar and the mixture is dried to powder before being reformed into chocolate instead of mixing already powdered milk in).
America’s chocolate tastes weird to the rest of the world, but most of us don’t even notice Tove Danovich 2022
feelcomplex commented on the word crumb
The fact that even crumbs of bread were given utmost importance speaks of condition of living in Nazi concentration camp
August 1, 2014