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- Dictionarycrumb/krʌm/
noun
- 1. a small fragment of bread, cake, or biscuit: "she brushed some cake crumbs off her dress"
- 2. a very small amount of something: "the Budget provided few crumbs of comfort"
verb
- 1. cover (food) with breadcrumbs: "while the sweet potato is cooking, crumb the fish"
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CRUMB definition: 1. a very small piece of bread, cake, or biscuit 2. a small amount of something: 3. a very small…. Learn more.
The meaning of CRUMB is a small fragment especially of something baked (such as bread). How to use crumb in a sentence.
noun. a small particle of bread, cake, etc., that has broken off. a small particle or portion of anything; fragment; bit. Synonyms: speck, sliver, morsel, shred, scrap. the soft inner portion of a bread ( crust). crumbs, a cake topping made of sugar, flour, butter, and spice, usually crumbled on top of the raw batter and baked with the cake.
n. 1. A very small piece broken from a baked item, such as a cookie, cake, or bread. 2. A small fragment, scrap, or portion: eraser crumbs; not a crumb of kindness for you. 3. The soft inner portion of bread. 4. Slang A contemptible, untrustworthy, or loathsome person. v. crumbed, crumb·ing, crumbs. v.tr. 1.
Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut or eat them.
Definition of crumb noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Crumbs are what you're left with after finishing a box of cookies or a bag of tortilla chips — the bits that are too small to eat. You can also talk about other, non-edible types of crumbs, like the crumb of wisdom in an otherwise silly movie or the crumb of information a detective finds at a crime scene.
