crum

9.9

A small piece of bread or food

noun
/krʌm/

Archaic

: miga

Not a crum remained after the children finished their meal.

Examples

There is a crum of bread on your shirt.
He picked up a small crum from the floor.
He searched the table for a single crum to satisfy his hunger.
She brushed every crum off the counter before cleaning.
Not a crum remained after the children finished their meal.
He searched the table for a single crum to satisfy his hunger.
There is a crum of bread on your shirt.

Synonyms

crumb

vscrum

18 2.0

A very small amount of something, often hope or help

is the old dialect word for a literal small bread piece

crumble

vscrum

11 2.3

A small piece that breaks off from bread or cake

refers more generally to a small food fragment without implying breaking

How Small

speck

66 1.3

crum

Archaic

9.9

slice

194 1.0

piece

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

crum singular

crums plural

Etymology

Crum is a dialect form of crumb, which means 'a small piece' of bread or food. Think of food that falls apart, just like in the word crumble, and you will remember crum as a tiny broken bit of bread or food.