Crummy — Crum my (kr[u^]m m[y^]), a. 1. Full of crumb or crumbs. [1913 Webster] 2. Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty. [1913 Webster] 3. of very poor quality. [informal] Syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
crummy — 1560s, easily crumbled; 1570s, like bread, from CRUMB (Cf. crumb) + Y (Cf. y) (2). The second sense probably accounts for 18c. (and later in dialects) use, of a woman, attractively plump, full figured, buxom. Slang meaning shoddy, filthy,… … Etymology dictionary
crummy — [adj] lousy cheap, contemptible, crappy*, grotty, inferior, miserable, pathetic, poor, rotten, second rate, shabby, sub par, third rate, useless, worthless; concept 571 … New thesaurus
crummy — (also crumby) ► ADJECTIVE (crummier, crummiest) informal ▪ bad, unpleasant, or of poor quality … English terms dictionary
crummy — [krum′ē] adj. crummier, crummiest [< CRUM(B), with basic notion “brittle, friable, hence worthless” + Y2] Slang 1. dirty, cheap, shabby, disgusting, etc. 2. inferior, worthless, contemptible, etc. crumminess n … English World dictionary
crummy — [[t]krʌ̱mi[/t]] crummier, crummiest ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) Something that is crummy is unpleasant, of very poor quality, or not good enough. [INFORMAL] Here I am at a crummy hotel, with no clean clothes... The house is so old and… … English dictionary
crummy — adjective informal 1 of bad quality: a crummy book | What a crummy idea! 2 ill or upset: I felt pretty crummy the next morning … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
crummy — UK [ˈkrʌmɪ] / US adjective Word forms crummy : adjective crummy comparative crummier superlative crummiest informal not good in quality a crummy school … English dictionary
crummy — also crumby adjective (crummier; also crumbier; est) Etymology: Middle English crumme Date: 1567 1. obsolete crumbly 2. very poor or inferior ; lousy … New Collegiate Dictionary
Crummy — This interesting surname is of Scots Gaelic origin, and is of locational derivation from the place called Crombie in the parish of Auchterless, in the former county of Aberdeenshire (now part of the Grampian region), where the name is mainly… … Surnames reference
