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1819. T. Moore, Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress, p. 14. For they saw, notwithstanding Crib's honest endeavour, To train down the crummy, 'twas monstrous as ever!
1828. Jon. Bee, Pict. of London, p. 60. A nice, crummy, young woman, who seemed surprised and interested at his situation.
1843. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. xxix., p. 289. 'There's the remains of a fine woman about Sairah. Poll, . . . Too much crumb, you know,' said Mr. Bailey; 'too fat, Poll.'
1865. Henry Kingsley, The Hillyars and the Burtons. You're crummy and I ain't a going to deny it. But you ain't what I'd call fat.
2. (American).—Comely. Cf., sense 1.
3. (thieves' and soldiers').—Lousy.
4. (thieves').—Plump in the pockets. [Probably an extended use of sense 1.]
Crummy-Doss, subs. (thieves').—A lousy bed. [From crummy (q.v., sense 3), lousy, + doss (q.v.), a bed.]
Crump, subs. (Winchester College).—A hard hit; a fall. Used also as a verb in very much the same sense as to cob (q.v.). Cf., Barter.
Crumpet, subs. (common).—The head.
English Synonyms. Brain-pan; nut; chump; jazey; steeple; tib or tibby; weather-cock; turnip; upper extremity; top end; twopenny; upper storey; canister; attic; garret; costard; sconce; bonce; nob; lolly; lobb; knowledge-box; block; cocoa-nut; Crown-Office; calabash; top-knot; crust; chimney-pot; onion; chevy; cockloft; top-flat; gable; pumpkin; hat-peg; billiard ball; upper-crust; mazzard; cabaza; dome.
French Synonyms. Le michaud (thieves'); un caillou (popular; properly a pebble or flint); une baigneuse (thieves'); un baptême (popular); une cafetière (thieves' and vagrants'); une façade (popular); une armoire à glace (popular); une bille (popular: properly a billiard ball); un béguin (popular); une citrouille or un citrouillard (thieves': literally a pumpkin or gourd); un citron (thieves'); une ardoise (popular); un coco (popular: literally a cocoa-nut); une calebasse (popular = a calabash); une cocarde (popular: properly a cocade); un caisson (common: literally a chest or locker); une coloquinte (thieves'); un chapiteau (popular: literally a capital); une balle (popular); un moule de bonnet (popular: literally a cap-mould); le grenier à sel (popular: properly the [Attic] salt-loft); le baldaquin (a canopy); la boule (popular: the bowl, ball, or sconce); une ciboule (popular: properly a scallion, green onion, or eschalot); la boussole (familiar: in nautical phraseology, the compass); la pomme (popular and thieves'); le tesson (roughs'); la bobine (popular: literally a bobbin or spool); la poire (popular); la boîte au sel (familiar: the [Attic] salt-box); la boîte à sardines (popular = sardine box); la boîte à surprises (general: box of surprises); la tirelire (popular: literally money-box); la hure (properly the head of a wild boar); la gouache (popular); la noisette (popular: literally nut); le char (popular); le réservoir (popular: reservoir or cistern); le bourrichon (popular); la goupine
