bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny
(adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
• Nouns to which "crummy" (bad, poor) is often applied: job, weather, hotel, thing, town, life, movie, food, world, school, idea, person.
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
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
