Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slang Miserable or wretched: a crummy situation in the family.
- adj. Slang Shabby or cheap: a crummy little rowboat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of crumbs.
- Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty: as, a crummy loaf.
- Plump; buxom: as, a crummy lass.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal bad; poor
- adj. dated Full of crumb or crumbs; crumby.
- adj. dated Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.
- n. informal Small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite. A common term when referring to a vehicle with a compartment separate from the cab, housing the silvicultural, logging or mining crew during transport.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of crumb or crumbs.
- adj. Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.
- adj. informal of very poor quality.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of very poor quality; flimsy.
Etymologies
- Probably from crumb. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It's those little things that give me joy about this game and they really do weigh up to the lack of sleep in crummy beds in rooms crowded by people with sore feet and backs and heads because they drank too much and/or had too little sleep and they nag at each other about little things like "you stole my belongings!",”
“If you thought Sean Connery kicked ass in crummy low-res, just wait til you see him whip a chair in 1080p.”
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“Being a PD film, “Johnny the Giant Killer” has only been seen in crummy bootlegged dupes (most seem to come from well-worn 16mm prints).”
“Trio Network is featuring FLOPS this month, but they don't quite specify if they mean financial or artistic failures, or just plain crummy movies that nobody liked.”
“Woodward was known as a crummy writer so I liked Bernstein.”
“StSanders' Hilarious YouTube Parodies 'Shred' Guitar Gods : Music Hilarious YouTube Parodies 'Shred' Guitar Gods By Monty Phan 10.17.07 Santeri Ojala, aka StSanders, expertly overdubs crummy solos onto concert footage of guitar heroes in full shred mode.”
“The original PCs in the early 80's were pretty crummy, that is, until 1984 when Apple introduced the mouse and the Mac … Back then Alan Kay, inventor of the Dynabook tablet, said”
“By the usual standards for evaluating government interventions, which is to say crummy standards, TARP has done okay.”
“As for "crummy" panel slots: at SF, Barry Eisler moderated the Sunday morning panel and served mimosas and bagels.”
“Getting any panel is a bonus, so I don't know about calling the early slots "crummy".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crummy’.
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funny & derogatory
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funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
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What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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Is it morning yet?
coterie, lexeme, counterbalance, forthright, pigtail, ponytail, french-braid, barrette, listless, counsel, sitting duck, dead duck and 268 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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C is for Caddyshack
My C Words
cavalcade, charlie browniest, cakewalk, clambake, caboose, cadaver, caddyshack, cadillac, cahoots, calaboose, cannonball, canopy and 145 more...
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slang
himbo, grade digger, gaffle, gobshite, codswallup, schmooze, crummy, noggin, dweeb, klutz, wig out, swag
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I'm not always depressed: only when I...
gloomy, blue, morose, woebegone, melancholic, tragic, woeful, mopey, despondent, miserable, broody, mirthless and 24 more...
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Gabba Gabba Word: some Ramones words
blitzkrieg, pulsating, revved, beat, brat, punk, runt, wanna, boyfriend, chainsaw, massacre, sniff and 84 more...
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old-timey goodness
fusty, hoary, old-fashioned, archaic
antediluvian, merkin, soused, welkin, relict, forthwith, carouse, mollycoddle, trefoil, revenant, saltire, nonesuch and 60 more...
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Reasons why I wish I were British
God I love British words, especially combined with that tasty accent of theirs...
bloke, buttocks, blimey, bloody hell, bobbie, chip shop, chuffed, liverpudlian, crikey, crumpet, daft, doss and 20 more...
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60's slang
slang words from the sixties
neat, nizza, cool, wicked, snazzy, gump, garloo, crumby/crummy, crummy, cruddy, nifty, sappy and 9 more...
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I'm Haunted By SAT Word Lists
Tweets
Looking for tweets for crummy.

bilby whichbe has Contronympho although the words are not necessarily all of the 180-degree variety. Jun 22, 2009
madmouth I wonder if there are enough words to comprise a 180 Meaning Turn list... Jun 22, 2009
arby Whereas Roget has the new meaning:
crummy also crumby
ADJECTIVE: Slang. Of decidedly inferior quality: base, cheap, lousy, miserable, paltry, poor, rotten, shoddy, sleazy, trashy. Informal: cheesy. Slang: schlocky. See GOOD. Sep 27, 2007
arby Interesting, the old meaning was the opposite, see Bartleby:
E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
That’s crummy, that’s jolly good. She’s a crummy woman, a fine handsome woman. Crummy means fat or fleshy. The crummy part of bread is the fleshy or main part. The opposite of “crusty�? = ill-tempered. Sep 27, 2007
arby I associate this word with The Catcher in the Rye - Holden used it a lot and I think it was my first exposure to it. Aug 12, 2007
jennarenn In the world of dive restaurants, a crummy atmosphere often equals awesome food. Jul 25, 2007
slumry Something that produces crumbs or something that is covered with crumbs; something that is of poor quality; a bus used to transfer workers to a job site. Wish I knew how the last meaning evolved (I could speculate, but would like to find some actual evidence. ;-) Jul 25, 2007