crumb
English
/kɹʌm/
noun
Definitions
- A small piece which break breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- A small piece of other material, such as rubber.
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English crome inherited from Old English cruma (crumb, fragment, morsel) inherited from Proto-Germanic *krumô derived from Proto-Indo-European *grū-mo- (scratch, junk, something scraped together, lumber, claw).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*grū-mo-
Gloss
scratch, junk, something scraped together, lumber, claw
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
爪
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bread English
- breadcrumb English
- breadcrumby English
- cake English
- cakecrumb English
- cloth English
- crumbcloth English
- crumber English
- crumblable English
- crumble English
- crumbler English
- crumblesome English
- crumbless English
- crumblet English
- crumbleth English
- crumblike English
- crumbly English
- decrumb English
- toast English
- toastcrumb English
- Krümel German
- Krümelchen German
- krümeln German
- crumble French
- *grū-mo- Proto-Indo-European
- *krumô Proto-Germanic
- *crymlan Old English
- cruma Old English
- *crymblen Middle English
- crome Middle English
- crume Middle English