- crummy adj
- After burning a batch of cookies, a baker felt very crummy.
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crummy adj
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crummy — [adj] lousy cheap, contemptible, crappy*, grotty, inferior, miserable, pathetic, poor, rotten, second rate, shabby, sub par, third rate, useless, worthless; concept 571 … New thesaurus
crummy — adj Bad, no good Where did you get such a crummy baseball mitt? 1940s … Historical dictionary of American slang
crummy — [krum′ē] adj. crummier, crummiest [< CRUM(B), with basic notion “brittle, friable, hence worthless” + Y2] Slang 1. dirty, cheap, shabby, disgusting, etc. 2. inferior, worthless, contemptible, etc. crumminess n … English World dictionary
crummy — adj dilapidated, dirty, worthless. By the mid 19th century this word was in use in Britain as a literal and figurative syn onym for lousy , apparently due to the resemblance of body lice to crumbs. The word (usually spelled with double m ) has… … Contemporary slang
crummy — adj. (crummier, crummiest) colloq. dirty, squalid; inferior, worthless. Derivatives: crummily adv. crumminess n. Etymology: var. of CRUMBY … Useful english dictionary
crummy — crummy1 crummily, adv. crumminess, n. /krum ee/, adj., crummier, crummiest, n., pl. crummies. adj. 1. Also, crumby. Slang. a. dirty and run down; shabby; seedy: a crummy fleabag of a hotel … Universalium
crummy — [[t]krʌ̱mi[/t]] crummier, crummiest ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) Something that is crummy is unpleasant, of very poor quality, or not good enough. [INFORMAL] Here I am at a crummy hotel, with no clean clothes... The house is so old and… … English dictionary
crummy — crum|my [ˈkrʌmi] adj informal [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: crumb] of bad quality or unpleasant ▪ We were staying in this really crummy hotel. ▪ a crummy job … Dictionary of contemporary English
crummy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inferior, shabby (see inferiority, badness).Ant., excellent. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. lousy, poor, cheap, shabby, *crappy, subpar, inferior. ANT.: quality III (Roget s Thesaurus II) also… … English dictionary for students
crummy — crum·my || krÊŒmɪ adj. disgusting; inferior … English contemporary dictionary
