Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Scots A cow, especially one with crooked horns.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cow with crooked horns. Also crombie, crummock.
Etymologies
- From Scots crumb, crooked, from Middle English; see crumpet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If you're pasain 'oor wey, look in an' get a crummie.”
““It was decided in a case before the town bailies of Cupar Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale, while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the circumstance constituting a Doch an Dorroch, which is a standing drink for which no reckoning is paid.””
“Cupar-Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the very circumstance constituting DOCH AN DORROCH, which is a standing drink, for which no reckoning is paid.”
“Second, I don’t want any of them hung, I want them to do hard time in a crummie prison for years.”
“Cupar Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale, while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the circumstance constituting a Doch an Dorroch, which is a standing drink for which no reckoning is paid. ”
“And wha will pay for the wet-nurse?' said I; 'for ye ken I am as dry as a yeld crummie.”
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