a. [f. CRUMB sb. + -Y. The earlier spelling was CRUMMY, which is retained in some senses.]

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  1.  Of the nature of crumb: see CRUMMY 2.

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1767.  Byron’s Voy., 134. [Bread fruit] when gathered green, and roasted … has its inside soft, tender, white, and crumby, like bread.

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  2.  Full of crumbs; strewed with crumbs.

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1731.  Bailey, vol. II., Crummy.

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1739.  Walpole, Lett. to R. West, 20 July. Round a littered table, in a crumby room.

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1873.  Mrs. Whitney, Other Girls (1876), 153. Table cloths left … dragging and crumby.

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