crumb

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. To break into very small pieces; crumble.
2. To cover or prepare with very small pieces of bread.
3. To brush (a table or cloth) clear of small scraps or fragments of food.

v.intr.
To break apart in very small pieces: a solid cake that won't crumb.

[Middle English crome, from Old English cruma.]

Small particle of bread, cake, or biscuit, as broken off by rubbing.

noun

1. A small portion of food: bit, morsel, mouthful, piece. Informal bite. See big/small/amount.
2. A tiny amount: bit, dab, dash, dot, dram, drop, fragment, grain, iota, jot, minim, mite, modicum, molecule, ort, ounce, particle, scrap, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit. Chiefly British spot. See big/small/amount.

Two binary digits; a quad. Larger than a bit, smaller than a nybble. Considered silly. Syn. tayste. General discussion of such terms is under nybble.

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In soil science, a spheroidal cluster of soil particles, i.e. a type of ped.

IN BRIEF: Any bit or scrap.

There were crumbs all over the counter after they made toast.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - krumme, smule, rasp, frastødende person, skid
v. tr. - drysse rasp over, smuldre
v. intr. - smuldre

Nederlands (Dutch)
kruimel, klein beetje, vervelend iemand, (mv) Jeetje!, verkruimelen, paneren

Français (French)
n. - miette, une bribe de, minable (personne) (péj)
v. tr. - émietter
v. intr. - émietter

Deutsch (German)
n. - Krümel, Krume, Brösel
v. - zerkrümeln

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ψιχίο, ψίχουλο, ψίχα ψωμιού, παλιοτόμαρο, λεχρίτης
v. - θρύπτω/-ομαι, κάνω τρίμματα, σκεπάζω με τριμμένη φρυγανιά

Italiano (Italian)
briciola

Português (Portuguese)
n. - migalha (f) (de pão)
v. - esmigalhar

Русский (Russian)
крошка, кроха, паршивец

Español (Spanish)
n. - miga, migaja
v. tr. - migar, desmenuzar, desmigajar
v. intr. - hacer migas o migajas

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - brödsmula, smula, inkråm i bröd, äcklig typ (sl.)
v. - smula(-s) sönder, beströ m skorpmjöl, borsta bort smulor

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
面包屑, 碎屑, 糕饼屑, 少许, 捏碎, 弄碎, 碎裂, 变成碎屑

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 麵包屑, 碎屑, 糕餅屑, 少許
v. tr. - 捏碎, 弄碎
v. intr. - 碎裂, 變成碎屑

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 작은 조각, 근소, (머리나 옷의) 이
v. tr. - 빵을 부스러뜨리다, 빵가루를 묻히다
v. intr. - 빵을 부스러뜨리다, 빵가루를 묻히다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - パンくず, パンの身, ほんの少し, 少し
v. - パン粉をまぶす, パンくずにする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) فتات الخبز, لب الخبز (فعل) حول الى فتات, فتت‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮פירור, תוך הלחם, אדם לא-נעים‬
v. tr. - ‮כיסה בפירורים, פורר לפירורים‬
v. intr. - ‮פירור, תוך הלחם‬

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