Crumb

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  • 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. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
  • noun. A bit, small amount.
  • noun. The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
  • noun. A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
  • noun. A nobody, worthless person.
  • noun. A body louse.
  • verb. To cover with crumbs.
  • verb. To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "Bakers use the term crumb for this network, which constitutes the bulk of the bread or cake."
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    Brum  Krum  Mum  alum  become  
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    cornmeal  hunk  morsel  mouthful  platter  
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    crum  
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    crumbed  crumbing  crumbs