crummy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹʌmi/
• Rhymes: -ʌmi

• Audio (Southern England):

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Etymology 1

Variant of crumby, mid 19th c.

Adjective

crummy (comparative crummier, superlative crummiest)

1. (informal) Bad; poor.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bad, Thesaurus:low-quality

   Do not bother buying crummy knives if you are serious about cooking.

   • 2011, Randall E. Auxier, Douglas R. Anderson, Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy: Darkness on the Edge of Truth‎^[1], Open Court, →ISBN, page 197:

     Whether it's a crummy hometown, a crummy job, or a crummy family, Bruce punctuates his songs with some oppressive tension. Early on in his work, oppression is nothing an open window, a fast car, a willing female, or a tank of gas couldn't fix.

2. (dated) Full of crumb or crumbs.

   Synonym: crumby

3. (dated) Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.

Derived terms

• crummily
• crumminess

 

Collocations

with nouns

• crummy job
• crummy weather
• crummy hotel
• crummy thing
• crummy town
• crummy life
• crummy movie
• crummy food
• crummy world
• crummy school
• crummy idea
• crummy person

Translations

bad, poor

• Catalan: galdós (ca)
• German: lausig (de)
• Hungarian: rossz (hu), vacak (hu)
• Polish: lichy (pl), marny (pl)
• Russian: никудышный (ru) (nikudyšnyj), дрянной (ru) (drjannoj)

Etymology 2

Noun

crummy (plural crummies)

1. (informal, British Columbia and Northwestern US) A small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite.
2. A cow with a crumpled horn.