Business name word
Crumb
A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
Pronunciation: /kɹʌm/, /kɹɐm/
What “Crumb” means
Noun
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- A small piece of any other solid substance.
- A bit, small amount.
- Ellipsis of crumb rubber.
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
Verb
- To cover with crumbs.
- To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.
Where the word comes from
From Middle English crome, cromme, crumme, crume, from Old English cruma (“crumb, fragment”), from Proto-Germanic *krumô, *krūmô (“fragment, crumb”). The b is unetymological, as in limb, and first appeared in the mid-15th century, influenced by crumble and words such as dumb, numb, and thumb. Cognate with Dutch kruim (“crumb”), Low German Krome, Krume (“crumb”), German Krume (“crumb”), Danish krumme (“crumb”), Swedish dialectal krumma (“crumb”), Swedish in kråm (“crumbs, giblets”), Icelandic krumur (“crumb”), Latin grūmus (“a little heap”).
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