crummy
pronunciation
How to pronounce crummy in British English:
UK [ˈkrʌmi]
How to pronounce crummy in American English:
US [ˈkrʌmi]
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- Adjective:
- of very poor quality
Word Origin
- crummy (adj.)
- 1560s, "easily crumbled;" 1570s, "like bread," from crumb + -y (2). The second sense probably accounts for 18c. (and later in dialects) use, of a woman, "attractively plump, full-figured, buxom." Slang meaning "shoddy, filthy, inferior, poorly made" in use by 1859, probably is from the first sense, but influenced by crumb in its slang sense of "louse."
Example
- 1. Don 't be crummy just a joke !
- 2. The carpet was pretty crummy so we threw it away .
- 3. The service at that restaurant is crummy .
- 4. He goes back in for his crummy gloves .
- 5. I 've had a pretty crummy week .