Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Easily broken; brittle; crisp; crump.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Brittle; crisp.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective brittle; crisp

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Examples

  • This old and crumpy man will make your life a living HELL and this includes the life of your daughters as well.

    McCaskill interested in VP? 2008

  • Though she has uped her crumpy sneak attacks on both of them, in the hope they will go away.

    Snell-Pym » 2006 » November 2006

  • Feel crumpy, she thought, and she could almost hear her granny saying to her grand ad

    In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996

  • Generally he found Winsome busy with her household affairs, sometimes with her sleeves buckled above her elbows, rolling the tough dough for the crumpy farles of the oat-cake, and scattering handfuls of dry meal over it with deft fingers to bring the mass to its proper consistency for rolling out upon the bake-board.

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

  • Iphone is like 50 year old man, experience, got potential and are wise, otoh. they are crumpy and unwillig to adapt.

    Fullasagoog 2010

  • He has not been feeling good since he started his new school, he is depresed again and very crumpy to everyone.

    The life of a Dutch scrapper 2008

  • April 19th, 2010 3: 42 pm ET what government??? we have the democrats working hard to restore our country while the republicans have sat around openly stating they are not going to do anything as long as barack obama is president. in my opinion the repubs are stealing money from the american people every time they cash their paychecks. the bums need to be sent to arizonia with there long grim faces an be made to guard the border against the mexicans that mccain all of a sudden thinks should be stopped an jailed. at least they would be earning their paycheck. mccain should be the leader since he has gone from maveric to old, crumpy and just nasty. what a sight that would be. the poor mexicans would run back to mexico in sheer horror when running up against a bunch that ugly and crumpy. nameless

    Poll cites rising distrust of government in America 2010

  • crumpy: Huh, the mobile me calendar beta doesn't do push notifications for iPad.

    GigaOM Network 2010

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