CRUMMY

bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny

(adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

crummy (comparative crummier, superlative crummiest)

(informal) Bad; poor.

Synonyms: Thesaurus:bad, Thesaurus:low-quality

(dated) Full of crumb or crumbs.

Synonym: crumby

(dated) Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "crummy" (bad, poor) is often applied: job, weather, hotel, thing, town, life, movie, food, world, school, idea, person.

Noun

crummy (plural crummies)

(informal, British Columbia and U.S. Pacific Northwest) A small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite.

A cow with a crumpled horn.

Source: Wiktionary


Crum"my (krm"m), a.

1. Full of crumb or crumbs.

2. Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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