Meanings
crum1
plural crums
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of crumb.
The servants, especially the cook, were obliged every day to prepare a dish full of sweet milk, with crums of wheaten bread, and place it upon his little table; and it was soon after eaten up clean.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 47
Crum2
Origin
* As an Irish and Scottish surname, from McCrum. * As a German, Dutch, and Jewish surname, from Krom.
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