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crummy

/ˈkɹʌmi/

crummy adjective: bad; poor.

Adjective

crummy (comparative crummier, superlative crummiest)

  1. (informal) Bad; poor.
    • Do not bother buying crummy knives if you are serious about cooking.
    • Does it look like I care? No, seriously, stare real hard and long at the picture at the top of this column. That’s about as much reaction as you’re gonna get out of me as far as your crummy problems go.1997 December 19, Matt Thompson, “Wiz deals with Xmas mail load”, in Springfield News-Sun, Springfield, Oh.: Cox Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23
  2. (dated) Full of crumb or crumbs.
    Synonyms:
    crumby
  3. (dated) Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.

Noun

crummy (plural crummies)

  1. (British-Columbia, Northwestern, US, informal) A small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite.
  2. A cow with a crumpled horn.

crummy meaning in Tamil

crummy in Tamil

மோசமான

Synonyms of crummy

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Forms of crummy

Adjective
comparativecrummier
superlativecrummiest
Noun
pluralcrummies

Origin of crummy

Variant of crumby, mid 19th c.

Words formed from crummy

Words that rhyme with crummy

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Questions about crummy

What does crummy mean?
Crummy means bad; poor.
What is crummy in Tamil?
Crummy in Tamil is மோசமான. See Crummy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is crummy?
Crummy can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce crummy?
Crummy is pronounced /ˈkɹʌmi/.

Words near crummy in the dictionary

  1. crumminess
  2. crumming up
  3. crummock
  4. crummocks
  5. Crumms
  6. crummy
  7. crump
  8. crumped
  9. crumpet
  10. crumpet-faced
  11. crumpets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crummy (page history and authors); crummy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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