crummy1
[kruhm-ee]
- Also crumby. Slang.
- dirty and run-down; shabby; seedy: a crummy fleabag of a hotel.
- of little or no value; cheap; worthless: crummy furniture that falls apart after a month of use.
- wretchedly inadequate; miserable; lousy: They pay crummy salaries.
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- Railroads Slang. a caboose.
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Origin of crummy1
crummy2
[kruhm-ee, kroo m-ee]
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crummie
or crum·my
[kruhm-ee, kroo m-ee]
- a cow with crooked horns.
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Origin of crummie
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Contemporary Examples
And Steubenville was a prime example of our crummy attitude when it comes to bringing attackers to account.
CAP gets its impressive number with a crummy trick: omitting the increased costs of legalization.
This process is exhausting for the poor phones, and more so for those phones with crummy transistors.
The translation might as well be: he was a crummy governor; why would he be a different president?
The neighborhood gains a new and improved store in place of Mr. Gonzalez's crummy bodega.
Historical Examples
"I get it, all right, you crummy little chiseler," growled Astro.
Sabotage in SpaceCarey Rockwell
Gimme another glass of milk and another of these crummy sandwiches.
Sabotage in SpaceCarey Rockwell
And Crummy—thats my outside man—kin handle the front and make the spiel, and take in what money comes in.
Local ColorIrvin S. Cobb
You know you could do all right acting, but you don't dare giving up this crummy job.
The Old Die RichHorace Leonard Gold
You mean sitting in the sun on a crummy lakeside, watching the birds and bees?
On the Trail of the Space PiratesCarey Rockwell
crummy1
- of little value; inferior; contemptible
- unwell or depressedto feel crummy
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Word Origin
C19: variant spelling of crumby
crummy2
- Canadian a lorry that carries loggers to work from their camp
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Word Origin
probably originally meaning: makeshift camp, from crummy 1
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Word Origin and History for crummy
adj.
1560s, "easily crumbled;" 1570s, "like bread," from crumb + -y (2). The second sense probably accounts for 18c. (and later in dialects) use, of a woman, "attractively plump, full-figured, buxom." Slang meaning "shoddy, filthy, inferior, poorly made" in use by 1859, probably is from the first sense, but influenced by crumb in its slang sense of "louse."
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