1 a very small piece of food, especially of bread or cake, that has fallen off a larger piece:
She stood up and brushed the crumbs from her sweater.
2 a small piece or amount:
a few crumbs of useful information * The government's only crumb of comfort is that their opponents are as confused as they are.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for crumb is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is crumb a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, crumb is tagged as noun.
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