Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Miserable or wretched.
- adjective Shabby or cheap.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of crumbs.
- Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty: as, a crummy loaf.
- Plump; buxom: as, a crummy lass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of crumb or crumbs.
- adjective Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.
- adjective informal of very poor quality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective informal
bad ;poor - adjective dated Full of crumb or crumbs;
crumby . - adjective dated Soft, like the crumb of
bread ; notcrusty . - noun 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of very poor quality; flimsy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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!",
Charm nathreee 2009
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If you thought Sean Connery kicked ass in crummy low-res, just wait til you see him whip a chair in 1080p.
Bond Goes Blu-Ray, Reminds Us When Fighting Involved Lasers, Chair Throwing » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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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).
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007
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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.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2004
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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.
Archive 2004-06-13 Michael Evans 2004
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Woodward was known as a crummy writer so I liked Bernstein.
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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.
Hilarious YouTube Parodies 'Shred' Guitar Gods Monty Phan 2007
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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
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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
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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
slumry commented on the word crummy
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. ;-)
July 25, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word crummy
In the world of dive restaurants, a crummy atmosphere often equals awesome food.
July 26, 2007
arby commented on the word crummy
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.
August 12, 2007
arby commented on the word crummy
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.
September 27, 2007
arby commented on the word crummy
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.
September 27, 2007
madmouth commented on the word crummy
I wonder if there are enough words to comprise a 180 Meaning Turn list...
June 22, 2009
bilby commented on the word crummy
whichbe has Contronympho although the words are not necessarily all of the 180-degree variety.
June 22, 2009