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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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