crumb
96
1.0
- noun
- /krʌm/
:
miga
- There were small crumbs on the floor after the cake party.
- bread crumbs
You're creating trails, you know, bread crumbs and you're leaving blank spots.
- You're creating trails, you know, bread crumbs and you're leaving blank spots.
- You start to follow the trail of bread crumbs that they are leaving for you.
- I mean, there's custard cream crumbs on the floor, there's muddy footprints.
- And there's also crumbs all over the keyboard and in the hinge.
- I also got bread crumbs for my meatball thingies.
- So it's egg, sausage, meat, bread crumbs, fried.
Examples
-
You just want to stir everything so that the crumbs are completely coated in butter.
-
I followed the bread crumbs.
-
He ate every crumb of it.
-
And you are allowed to keep those crumbs.
-
You start to follow the trail of bread crumbs that they are leaving for you.
-
But you can buy bread crumbs in the shops as well.
-
Hey, you got crumbs in your beard.
-
Everyone stood back while he threw bread crumbs onto the water.
Fiction book (1993) -
There are crumbs under the refrigerator, crumbs on the counter.
-
Art reached over and brushed some flaky crumbs off my sweater.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
51
3.9
A very thin small piece cut or broken from something like wood
11
2.3
A small piece that breaks off from bread or cake
11
2.4
Small pieces of dry bread that you put on food before cooking
A small piece of bread or food
Compounds
How Small
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crumb comes from an old English word meaning 'small broken piece' and is the same root as crumble, so you can picture a tiny bit of bread or cake.