Etymology

crump

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Today it means: The sound of a muffled explosion. Full definition →

Middle English crump ← Old English crump ← Proto-West Germanic *krump
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crump · noun, verb1

Onomatopoeic.

crump · adjective2

See crumb.

crump · adjective, verb3

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*krumpaz, *krumbaz“bent”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*krump
  3. Old English · inherited fromcrump
  4. Middle English · inherited fromcrump
  5. English todaycrump

From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”). Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp.

Crump · proper noun4

* As an English surname, from the adjective crump (“crooked”). Compare Croom. * As a German and Dutch surname, Americanized from Krump (see Krumm and Ruhm) and Kramp.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishcrump all →

crumple

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.