Word Study
crummy
CIDE DICTIONARY
crummy, a.
- Full of crumb or crumbs. [1913 Webster]
- Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty. [1913 Webster]
- of very poor quality. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
crummy, adj. (crummier, crummiest) colloq. dirty, squalid; inferior, worthless.
Derivative
crummily adv. crumminess n.
Etymology
var. of CRUMBY
THESAURUS
crummy
abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, barfy, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, bum, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crappy, creepy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, flagrant, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, godawful, goshawful, grave, grim, gross, hairy, heinous, icky, little, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, punk, putrid, rank, reptilian, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shitty, shoddy, small, sorry, squalid, stinking, stinky, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unmentionable, valueless, vile, vomity, worthless, wretched, yecchyFor further exploring for "crummy" in Webster Dictionary Online