Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To crush or crunch with the teeth.
- v. To strike heavily with a crunching sound.
- v. To make a crunching sound, especially in walking over snow.
- n. A crunching sound.
- n. The sound of an exploding shell.
- n. A heavy blow.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Crooked; bent.
- n. A deformed or crooked person.
- To bend; crook.
- To be out of temper.
- To become perverted or corrupt.
- n. The cramp.
- To make a crunching noise, as in eating what is hard and brittle; emit a creaking sound, as snow when crushed under the feet; crunch.
- Brittle; crusty; dry-baked; crisp.
Wiktionary
- adj. UK, Scotland, dialect Hard or crusty; dry baked
- adj. obsolete crooked; bent
- n. The sound of a muffled explosion.
- v. intransitive To produce such a sound.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Crooked; bent.
- adj. Prov. Eng. & Scot. Hard or crusty; dry baked.
WordNet 3.0
- v. bombard with heavy shells
- v. explode heavily or with a loud dull noise
- v. make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants
Etymologies
- (onomatopoeia) (Wiktionary)
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The taxi drives through Tavistock Square, it is nearly 9.45am, as we leave the Square there is a dull 'crump' noise.”
“I had not gone far when a "crump" struck so close as to stun and partly bury me.”
“I observed that sometimes these "crump" holes were very small, and found that after all in this war a small man had some advantage over me.”
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders
“I could hear the shells coming as the field was dotted here and there with "crump" holes or craters where shells had fallen.”
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders
“Followed a burst of shrapnel and one more "crump," and the enemy's retaliation on the 9.2 and its crew had ceased.”
“Provided that your sentry's nerves are all right, and that a "crump" does not drop right into his little section of trench, there is not much that can go wrong.”
“Meanwhile, the climate change hysterics are trapped in their nightmare of tsunamis and things that go "crump" in the dark.”
“crump" hole where a shell had fallen and exploded!”
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders
“Instead it was the crump and whomp of the howitzer as those hills were blasted out.”
“In the distance, she could hear the buzz/hum/hiss of Marine weapons, the snapping of century old ex-Soviet assault rifles, the occasional crump of chemical explosives.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crump’.
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
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crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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just neat
insolent, redolent, clammy, chunder, berate, vainqueur, neotony, milquetoast, semprini, twaddle, plethora, enteron and 29 more...
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Words That Mean Things
I found most of these words in books! That means they MUST be good.
flinders, periplus, palaver, midden, cadge, legerdemain, flense, lapidary, geas, bailey, susurration, satoris and 128 more...
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Greg's Words
frippet, furtive, gimcrack, indefatigable, vicissitudes, pedant, ziggurat, susurrus, sub rosa, rodomontade, interregnum, abscise and 168 more...
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Generally Enjoyable
supercilious, facetious, crump, upchuck, zizz, soma, proprioception, solipsism, autochthonous, notwithstanding, kinesthetic, cocentric and 31 more...
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In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
- Siegfried Sassoon, 'Suicide in the Trenches'. Jul 23, 2009